Thomas Gummerer wrote: > On 01/22, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> I had no idea what --overlay would mean and am still not clear on it. >> Is this analogous to "git add --ignore-removal"? If so, can we just >> call it --ignore-removal? > > Yes, it seems like they are very similar. I'm happy to rename the > option. The topic seems to have made it to 'next' already, so I'll > submit the patches on top, unless reverting the topic out of next and > replacing it is preferred? A patch on top sounds good. [...] >> I'm nervous about the config with no associated warning or plan for >> phasing it out. It means that scripts using "git checkout" don't >> get a consistent behavior unless they explicitly pass this option, >> which didn't exist in older versions of Git --- in other words, >> scripts have no real good option. Can we plan a transition to >> making --no-ignore-removal the default, in multiple steps? For >> example: > > As Junio mentioned, the plan was to just have this mode default when > we introduce the new checkout-paths command. > > As checkout is a porcelain command, I had hoped it would be okay to > also have this as a configuration option, for the time before > 'checkout-paths' exists and while I'm getting used to actually typing > 'checkout-paths' instead of 'checkout'. However I get that there may > be scripts that are using git checkout, and expect the previous > behaviour, so I'm also okay with dropping the config option for now. Yes, if we have no plan for flipping the default later, then I would prefer to eliminate the config option. Scripts very frequently use human-facing commands like "git checkout" when they want the command to produce (unparsable) friendly output to show to humans, and I don't think we've provided a good alternative for that use case. > If we still want to make this the default even after 'checkout-paths' > exists, the plan you outline below sounds good to me, though maybe we > can make the "flip the default" step once we decide to release git > 3.0. I would really like this, so I might write a series for it. Please don't wait for me, though --- feel free to send any patches you're thinking about and we can work together or I can just appreciate your work. ;-) Sincerely, Jonathan
