Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add --show-touched option to show "diff --git" line when contents are unchanged

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 11:58:49 +0200

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
>> Johannes Schindelin <[email-masked]> writes:
>> 
>>> So I have the slight suspicion that all this will accomplish is "shut the 
>>> darn thing up", and old-timers will have a harder time, since they no 
>>> longer spot easily when they did a Dumb Thing and left the index out of 
>>> sync.
>> 
>> The hardest hit would be old-timers who try to be friendly by
>> trying to help new people, who has much less chance to notice
>> and report these much less prominent warnings, over e-mail or
>> irc.
> 
> True.  It is even bigger than that annoyance to people who know how git 
> works.

Perhaps config variable, by default old behaviour if not set?

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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