From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC] "needs update" considered harmful
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:48:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v1w1pdmi8.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7v3am5f20f.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org
The previous two variants both aim to reword the somewhat unpopular "needs
update" message to easier "locally modified".
"Politically correct" thing to do would be to keep the output from the
update-index (plumbing) intact and update only output from "reset" and
"add --refresh -v" which are Porcelain. This has smaller chance of
breaking people's existing scripts, but some people may find the two
messages that say the same thing inconsistent.
Rewording to "locally modified" even at the plumbing level is a simpler
patch, keeps the API to refresh_index() intact, and probably is a better
approach in the longer term, especially if we can ignore people's existing
scripts.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-20 7:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-20 6:31 [PATCH] refresh-index: fix bitmask assignment Junio C Hamano
2008-07-20 7:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-20 7:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-20 7:48 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-07-21 18:17 ` [RFC] "needs update" considered harmful Jay Soffian
2008-07-20 7:48 ` [RFC variant 1 of 2] " Junio C Hamano
2008-07-20 7:48 ` [RFC variant 2 " Junio C Hamano
2008-07-20 11:29 ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-20 12:41 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-07-20 19:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-07-21 17:27 ` Jay Soffian
2008-07-20 14:03 ` André Goddard Rosa
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