From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add "--only-untracked" flag to status commands. Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:06:23 -0700 Message-ID: <7v7inkcz2o.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <4fcfda4a654b003f3ae3dc8d56424b5f59f48093.1187897406.git.v@pp.inet.fi> <20070823203246.GB3516@steel.home> <6D8BA2E0-50CD-4B7B-84D3-3D9A61421131@pp.inet.fi> <7v8x81s7d1.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Aug 25 01:06:58 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IOiEz-0001pt-6s for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 01:06:57 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756922AbXHXXG1 convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:06:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754057AbXHXXG1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:06:27 -0400 Received: from rune.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([208.210.124.37]:34092 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755902AbXHXXG0 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:06:26 -0400 Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-77.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by rune.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7E5F127C53; Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:06:46 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Jakub Narebski's message of "Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:47:30 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jakub Narebski writes: > Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> I think the latter is more important point. =C2=A0If you train a >> naive user to use --only-tracked to ignore "Untracked" list, you >> are doing him or her a great disservice. =C2=A0Mistake to forget "gi= t >> add" a new file before commiting will bound to happen. > > If it won't acquire short version, nor tab completion, mosts users wh= en > confronted with such a mothful of option-name wouldn't use it unless > necessary, I think... Yeah, but if we accept that --only-tracked patch, I know from the past experience that people would send a "shorter synonym" patch, arguing that the capability is already there. I really think we should resist temptation to add misfeatures that would encourage bad workflows and new user mistakes.