A few quick corrections: Jonathan Nieder wrote: > I'm starting to lean toward having this on unconditionally, with a > message that points the user who really doesn't want to clobber their ... who really *does* want to clobber their index ... > index toward "git add -u", as a good idea. I think that for humans, > that would be okay and that configuration doesn't really help much > for this. > > The remaining question becomes scripts. A script might do > > ... modify old-file and create new-file ... > git add new-file > git commit -m "some great message" > > which would trip this error. For that matter, humans might do that, > too. Could the check detect this case (where the only changes in the > index are additions of new files) and treat it as non-destructive? (where the only changes in the index are additions of new files *that match the worktree*) Sorry for the noise, Jonathan
