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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Nathan Neulinger <nneul@neulinger.org>,
	Santiago Torres <santiago@nyu.edu>,
	git@vger.kernel.org,
	Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: git status always modifies index?
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2017 16:37:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq7eu4mysc.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171127205731.GB27469@aiede.mtv.corp.google.com> (Jonathan Nieder's message of "Mon, 27 Nov 2017 12:57:31 -0800")

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> I am worried that the project is not learning from what happened here.
> ...
> Fair enough, though that feels like overengineering.  But I *still*
> don't see what that has to do with the name "no-optional-locks".  When
> is a lock *optional*?  And how am I supposed to discover this option?
>
> This also came up during review, and I am worried that this review
> feedback is being ignored.  In other words, I have no reason to
> believe it won't happen again.

I too would like to see this part explained a bit better.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-12-03  0:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-22 15:19 git status always modifies index? Nathan Neulinger
2017-11-22 15:30 ` Santiago Torres
2017-11-22 15:37   ` Nathan Neulinger
2017-11-22 16:10     ` Santiago Torres
2017-11-22 16:20       ` Nathan Neulinger
2017-11-22 16:24         ` Santiago Torres
2017-11-22 20:27         ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-11-22 21:17           ` Jeff King
2017-11-22 21:56             ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-11-22 22:06               ` Jeff King
2017-11-25 21:55                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-11-26 19:25                   ` Jeff King
2017-11-26 21:55                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-11-27  5:24                       ` Jeff King
2017-11-27  6:03                         ` Junio C Hamano
2017-11-27 20:50                           ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-11-27  6:04                         ` [PATCH] git-status.txt: mention --no-optional-locks Jeff King
2017-11-27  6:07                           ` Junio C Hamano
2017-11-27 10:22                             ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2017-11-27 20:54                               ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-11-27 20:44                         ` git status always modifies index? Johannes Schindelin
2017-11-27 20:49                           ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-11-26  3:32                 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-11-26  9:35                   ` Junio C Hamano
2017-11-27  4:43                     ` Jeff King
2017-11-27  4:56                       ` Junio C Hamano
2017-11-27  5:00                         ` Jeff King
2017-11-27 20:57                       ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-11-27 22:50                         ` Jeff King
2017-12-03  0:37                         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-11-26 19:27                   ` Jeff King
2017-11-27  0:47                     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-11-27  6:12                       ` Jeff King

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