Re: [RFC variant 2 of 2] "needs update" considered harmful

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 8:29 AM, Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 12:48:21AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> "git update-index --refresh", "git reset" and "git add --refresh" have
>> reported paths that have local modifications as "needs update" since the
>> beginning of git.
>>
>> Although this is logically correct in that you need to update the index at
>> that path before you can commit that change, it is now becoming more and
>> more clear, especially with the continuous push for user friendliness
>> since 1.5.0 series, that the message is suboptimal.  After all, the change
>> may be something the user might want to get rid of, and "updating" would
>> be absolutely a wrong thing to do if that is the case.
>>
>> I prepared two alternatives to solve this.  Both aim to reword the message
>> to more neutral "locally modified".
>>
>> This patch is a more straightforward variant that changes the message not
>> only for Porcelain commands ("add" and "reset") but also changes the
>> output from the plumbing command "update-index".
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> I believe this is a good thing. Scripts need to be modified for the

Thanks for doing that. I hope this goes mainline soon.

-- 
[]s,
André Goddard
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

[Index of Archives]     [Linux Kernel Development]     [Gcc Help]     [IETF Annouce]     [DCCP]     [Netdev]     [Networking]     [Security]     [V4L]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux SCSI]     [Fedora Users]

  Powered by Linux