On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 09:33:31AM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@xxxxxx> writes: > > > Before we put this into stone: > > Does it make sense to say "renormalize" instead of "rehash" ? > > (That term does exist already for merge. > > And rehash is more a technical term, rather then a user-point-of-view explanation) > > I do not mind "renormalize" at all. > > As to the toy patch, I think it needs to (at least by default) turn > off the add_new_files codepath, and be allowed to work without any > pathspec (in which case all tracked paths should be renormalized). > OK, then I will pick up your patch in a couple of days/weeks, and push it further then (Documentation, test cases, other ?)