On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 6:54 PM, Torsten Bögershausen <tbo...@web.de> wrote:
>> Current state of affairs:
>>
>>  * Enable on a per-repo basis: git update-index --untracked-cache
>>  * Disable on a per-repo basis: git update-index --no-cache
>>  * Enable system-wide: N/A
>>  * Disable system-wide: N/A
>>
>> With this patch:
>>
>>  * Enable on a per-repo basis: git update-index --untracked-cache OR
>> "git config core.untrackedCache true"
>>  * Disable on a per-repo basis: git update-index --no-cache OR "git
>> config core.untrackedCache false"
>>  * Enable system-wide: git config --global core.untrackedCache true
>>  * Disable system-wide: git config --global core.untrackedCache false
>>  * Caveat: The core.untrackedCache config has precidence over "git 
>> update-index"
>>
>> With the rest of the patches in this series:
>>
>>  * Enable system-wide & per-repo the same, just tweak
>> core.untrackedCache either for the local .git or --globally
>>  * If you want to test things either per-repo or globally just use
>> "git update-index --test-untracked-cache"
>>  * If you want something exactly like the old --untracked-cache do:
>> "git update-index --test-untracked-cache && git config
>> core.untrackedCache true"
>>
>> I think applying this whole series makes sense. Enabling this feature
>> doesn't work like anything else in Git, usually you just tweak a
>> config option and thus can easily enable things either system-wide or
>> per-repo (or any combination of the two), which makes both system
>> administration and local configuration easy.
>>
>> A much saner UI for the CLI tools if we're going to ship git with
>> tests for filesystem features is to separate the testing from the
>> enabling of those features.
>
> My spontanous feeling: squash 6-8 together and add this nice explanation
> to the commit message.

Ok, I will do that then.
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