From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox•net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl•org>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, Paul Jakma <paul@clubi•ie>
Subject: Re: seperate commits for objects already updated in index?
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 15:51:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vwtewk2jp.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603140915290.3618@g5.osdl.org> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Tue, 14 Mar 2006 09:20:22 -0800 (PST)")
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl•org> writes:
> I also think that test is historical, from before Junio cleaned up how
> "git commit" worked - it _used_ to be that "git commit" would work in the
> current index, but these days it generates a new index to commit when you
> do "-o", so there's really no _technical_ reason to refuse the partial
> commit any more as far as I can see.
>
> So I don't know. I don't think you were being dumb, I think git could have
> been friendlier to you.
I have to go back to the list archive, but if I recall correctly
the refusal was added to be friendlier -- by being safer -- and
was not there in the earlier round of -o/-i proposal.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-14 23:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-14 16:37 seperate commits for objects already updated in index? Paul Jakma
2006-03-14 17:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-14 17:04 ` Paul Jakma
2006-03-14 17:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-14 17:27 ` Paul Jakma
2006-03-14 23:51 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2006-03-15 3:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-03-15 13:28 ` Paul Jakma
2006-03-15 14:00 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-03-15 19:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-03-15 19:43 ` Andreas Ericsson
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