On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 12:53:29AM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote: > There is no sensible behavior in this case, because sometimes the data > is precious, such as certain configuration files, and sometimes it is > irrelevant data that the user would be happy to discard. > > Since this is not a supported configuration and users are prone to > misuse the existing features for unintended purposes, causing general > sadness and confusion, let's document the existing behavior and the > pitfalls in the documentation for git update-index so that users know > they should explore alternate solutions. I think this is an improvement. It would be nice if we had some specific alternatives to point them to. But as you note, Git doesn't really have a good solution for this built-in. And I don't know offhand of a complete one that we could recommend. So this is probably the best we can do for now. -Peff
