Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2013, #05; Tue, 12)

2013-02-22 Thread Junio C Hamano
Miles Bader writes: > Junio C Hamano writes: >> * Introduce "git add --ignore-removal" option in the release after >>the current cycle (a new feature is too late for this cycle): > > Too late in the cycle even if the option is simply ignored ... ? > > [To extend the range of git versions wh

Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2013, #05; Tue, 12)

2013-02-22 Thread Miles Bader
Junio C Hamano writes: > * Introduce "git add --ignore-removal" option in the release after >the current cycle (a new feature is too late for this cycle): Too late in the cycle even if the option is simply ignored ... ? [To extend the range of git versions where it's not an error] -miles

Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2013, #05; Tue, 12)

2013-02-18 Thread greened
Junio C Hamano writes: > * dg/subtree-fixes (2013-02-05) 6 commits > (merged to 'next' on 2013-02-09 at 8f19ebe) > + contrib/subtree: make the manual directory if needed > + contrib/subtree: honor DESTDIR > + contrib/subtree: fix synopsis > + contrib/subtree: better error handling for 'subt

Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2013, #05; Tue, 12)

2013-02-14 Thread Junio C Hamano
Junio C Hamano writes: > Andrew Ardill writes: > >>> If that is the change we are going to make, and if you can guarantee >>> that nobody who is used to the historical behaviour will complain, >>> then I am fine with it, but I think the latter part of the condition >>> will not hold. >> >> Does

Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2013, #05; Tue, 12)

2013-02-14 Thread Junio C Hamano
Andrew Ardill writes: >> If that is the change we are going to make, and if you can guarantee >> that nobody who is used to the historical behaviour will complain, >> then I am fine with it, but I think the latter part of the condition >> will not hold. > > Does the impossibility of asserting tha

Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2013, #05; Tue, 12)

2013-02-13 Thread Andrew Ardill
On 14 February 2013 15:36, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> That is, currently git add defaults to not staging file deletions, and >> we provide command line flags to include them. The consensus in the >> thread is that it is better to stage them by default; it seems >> reasonable to me that if we stage d

Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2013, #05; Tue, 12)

2013-02-13 Thread Junio C Hamano
Andrew Ardill writes: >> We've discussed that before. >> >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/171811/focus=171818 > > Something that I couldn't find discussed was the option of, rather > than providing a config to 'turn it off', inverting the current > default/flags combo. >

Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2013, #05; Tue, 12)

2013-02-13 Thread Andrew Ardill
On 14 February 2013 02:27, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> If we need to support this behaviour than I would suppose a config >> option is required. A default config transition path similar to git >> push defaults would probably work well, in the case where breaking >> these expectations is unacceptable.

Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2013, #05; Tue, 12)

2013-02-13 Thread Junio C Hamano
Andrew Ardill writes: > On 13 February 2013 11:34, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> The change could negatively affect people who expect that removing >> files that are not used for their purpose (e.g. a large file that is >> unnecessary for their build) will _not_ affect what they get from >> "git add

Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2013, #05; Tue, 12)

2013-02-12 Thread Andrew Ardill
On 13 February 2013 11:34, Junio C Hamano wrote: > The change could negatively affect people who expect that removing > files that are not used for their purpose (e.g. a large file that is > unnecessary for their build) will _not_ affect what they get from > "git add ."; How big a problem is this

Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2013, #05; Tue, 12)

2013-02-12 Thread Junio C Hamano
Andrew Ardill writes: > On 13 February 2013 11:06, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> * jc/add-delete-default (2012-08-13) 1 commit >> - git add: notice removal of tracked paths by default >> >> "git add dir/" updated modified files and added new files, but does >> not notice removed files, which may b

Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2013, #05; Tue, 12)

2013-02-12 Thread Andrew Ardill
On 13 February 2013 11:06, Junio C Hamano wrote: > * jc/add-delete-default (2012-08-13) 1 commit > - git add: notice removal of tracked paths by default > > "git add dir/" updated modified files and added new files, but does > not notice removed files, which may be "Huh?" to some users. They >

Re: jn/shell-disable-interactive (Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2013, #05; Tue, 12))

2013-02-12 Thread Junio C Hamano
Jonathan Nieder writes: > Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> * jn/shell-disable-interactive (2013-02-11) 2 commits >> - shell: pay attention to exit status from 'help' command >> - shell doc: emphasize purpose and security model >> >> Will merge to 'next'. > > Please hold off on merging the second pat

jn/shell-disable-interactive (Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2013, #05; Tue, 12))

2013-02-12 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Junio C Hamano wrote: > * jn/shell-disable-interactive (2013-02-11) 2 commits > - shell: pay attention to exit status from 'help' command > - shell doc: emphasize purpose and security model > > Will merge to 'next'. Please hold off on merging the second patch. I'd like to reroll renaming the

What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2013, #05; Tue, 12)

2013-02-12 Thread Junio C Hamano
Here are the topics that have been cooking. Commits prefixed with '-' are only in 'pu' (proposed updates) while commits prefixed with '+' are in 'next'. A preview of the upcoming release 1.8.2-rc0 is expected to be tagged late this week. You can find the changes described here in the integration