From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag•fr>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx•de>
Cc: "Steven Grimm" <koreth@midwinter•com>,
"Jean-François Veillette" <jean_francois_veillette@yahoo•ca>,
"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox•com>,
git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-diff on touched files: bug or feature?
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:45:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqtzrivt2n.fsf@bauges.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708021614420.14781@racer.site> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Thu\, 2 Aug 2007 16\:23\:38 +0100 \(BST\)")
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx•de> writes:
> Okay, I'll answer just this one, instead of pointing you to the thread
> that I've been pointing to twice now
The link was probably not the right one since I saw only two [PATCH]
message, but yes, I remember a thread pointing out why git-status had
to update the index. I'm not arguing against that, I'm happy with the
current git-status behavior, but I find the git-diff one inconsistant
with git-status, and still don't understand any reason why a normal
user would want a difference.
> When is the time to say "git status"?
>
> It is just before committing. I.e when you really think that you're done
> editing, and want to have the end picture. "git status" only gives you
> names, and therefore it _has_ to update the index if it got out of sync,
> to show meaningful results.
>
> When is the time to say "git diff"?
>
> Much more often. In the middle of your work. And there it would be
> _disruptive_ if it updated the index all the time, especially if you have
> a quite large working tree.
That's your point of view, but I do not share it. Depending on the
kind of things I'm doing, I usually run status regularly, because it's
short to read, and it shows me both staged and unstaged changes.
git-status tells me if I did something obviously totally wrong
(changing a file on which I was not working, deleting something
important ...), and after that, git-diff gives me a finer-grained
vision of what I did.
Does this really sound so much irreasonable to you?
--
Matthieu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-02 15:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-01 16:17 git-diff on touched files: bug or feature? Matthieu Moy
2007-08-01 17:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-01 19:02 ` Alexandre Julliard
2007-08-01 19:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-01 19:17 ` Alexandre Julliard
2007-08-02 9:23 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-08-02 9:51 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-02 9:57 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-08-02 10:48 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-02 14:04 ` Jean-François Veillette
2007-08-02 14:43 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-02 15:10 ` Steven Grimm
2007-08-02 15:23 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-02 15:45 ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2007-08-02 17:58 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-08-03 5:37 ` [PATCH] Add --show-touched option to show "diff --git" line when contents are unchanged Steven Grimm
2007-08-03 6:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-03 10:23 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-03 20:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-03 21:32 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-08-03 21:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-03 23:01 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-08-03 23:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-05 19:42 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-08-05 19:45 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-05 19:57 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-08-06 15:56 ` Matthias Lederhofer
2007-08-06 16:10 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-06 16:16 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-06 20:05 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-08-06 20:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-07 6:32 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-07 13:34 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-08-07 4:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-07 4:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-07 6:41 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-08 3:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-08 3:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-08 8:26 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-08 8:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-08 9:13 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-08 9:23 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-08 9:58 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-08-07 5:56 ` Steven Grimm
2007-08-07 5:57 ` [PATCH] Add a note about the index being updated by git-status in some cases Steven Grimm
2007-08-07 6:35 ` [PATCH] git-diff: Output a warning about stale files in the index Steven Grimm
2007-08-07 6:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-07 7:17 ` [PATCH v2] " Steven Grimm
2007-08-07 7:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-07 7:51 ` Steven Grimm
2007-08-07 9:04 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-08-11 20:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-08 3:42 ` [PATCH] Add --show-touched option to show "diff --git" line when contents are unchanged Linus Torvalds
2007-08-07 6:39 ` Steven Grimm
2007-08-07 6:47 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-08-02 20:50 ` git-diff on touched files: bug or feature? Junio C Hamano
2007-08-02 9:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-02 10:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-02 12:08 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-08-02 12:21 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-02 19:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-03 7:04 ` Jeff King
2007-08-03 7:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-03 8:24 ` Jeff King
2007-08-03 8:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-03 8:40 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-08-03 9:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-02 12:05 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-08-02 12:19 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-02 12:26 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-08-02 14:39 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-02 14:49 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-08-02 15:12 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-02 13:25 ` Joel Reed
2007-08-02 15:05 ` Johannes Schindelin
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