Daniel Barkalow <barkalow <at> iabervon.org> writes: > I think that having the possibility of adding an empty blob (or maybe a > magical "nothing currently here but git-ls-files includes it") would be > preferrable to a no-index mode. That is, the operation that corresponds > most directly to "cvs add <filename>" is "git update-index --cacheinfo > 100644 e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391 <filename>", which is not > exactly easy to do, and just because a user wants to do this doesn't mean > the user doesn't want to use the index; a user that makes extensive use of > the index is actually more likely to want the state where a file is > tracked but all of the content has not yet been staged. I think it would be more natural if we had two commands for this; 'add' and 'keep/cache/stage'. The add command would add the file not the content to the index and the keep command would add the content. We could then have an auto-keep option for the add command and an auto-add option for the keep command. By setting both of these options they would give current behaviour for add. -- Sverre Hvammen Johansen -- 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
