On 14.05.16 20:45, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Torsten Bögershausen <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Do we need to run diff_populate_filespec() twice when src==dst ?
>
> Of course we do.
>
> src and dst may have the same path, but are coming from different
> places (src may be an indexed blob while dst may be a file in the
> working tree).
>
>> If yes, we may need to introduce a flag besides
>> #define CHECK_SIZE_ONLY 1
>> #define CHECK_BINARY 2
>> to suppress the conversion warning ??
>
> I do not think that belongs to diff_populate_filespec() at all.
>
> Why should conversion routine give this warning when called by
> diff_populate_filespec() in the first place? Shouldn't it be silent
> by default, and is allowed to talk _ONLY_ when we are attempting to
> actually replace the data in the index, e.g. "git add" and "git
> commit -a"?
>
Nja, (Or Nyes in English), the old handling tried to be "nice" to the user:
$ git add text # gave warning
#User forgets, does other things, git reset HEAD....
$ git commit # Gave the warning one more time, to remind the user,
# what he did, and what is really commited.
But it may be, that diff_populate_filespec() is the wrong place for speaches ?
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