On Mon, 21 May 2018, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Mon, 21 May 2018, Elijah Newren wrote:
>
> >> Hi Robert,
> >>
> >> I had always assumed prior to your email that 'known to Git'
> >> meant 'tracked' or 'recorded in the index'...
> >
> > i *know* i've been in this
Jonathan Nieder writes:
> My understanding was the same as Elijah's.
>
> I would be in favor of a patch that replaces the phrase "known to Git"
> in Git's documentation with something less confusing.
One possible twist I recall was that normally we only pay attention
to the
On Mon, 21 May 2018, Elijah Newren wrote:
> > can anyone refresh my memory if that happened here, and whether
> > that was the consensus after the discussion was over?
>
> Perhaps this:
> https://public-inbox.org/git/EEC5BA1D5F274F02AE20FC269868FDEF@PhilipOakley/
> ?
yup, that's it, thanks.
On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 10:40 AM, Robert P. J. Day
wrote:
> On Mon, 21 May 2018, Elijah Newren wrote:
>
>> Hi Robert,
>>
>> I had always assumed prior to your email that 'known to Git' meant
>> 'tracked' or 'recorded in the index'...
>
> i *know* i've been in this
Hi,
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> i did a quick search for that phrase in the current code base and
> came up with:
>
> builtin/difftool.c: /* The symlink is unknown to Git so read from
> the filesystem */
> dir.c:error("pathspec '%s' did not match any file(s) known to
On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 10:40 AM, Robert P. J. Day
wrote:
> On Mon, 21 May 2018, Elijah Newren wrote:
>
>> I had always assumed prior to your email that 'known to Git' meant
>> 'tracked' or 'recorded in the index'...
>
> i *know* i've been in this discussion before, but i
On Mon, 21 May 2018, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Mon, 21 May 2018, Elijah Newren wrote:
>
> >> Hi Robert,
> >>
> >> I had always assumed prior to your email that 'known to Git'
> >> meant 'tracked' or 'recorded in the index'...
> >
> > i *know* i've been in this
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Mon, 21 May 2018, Elijah Newren wrote:
>> Hi Robert,
>>
>> I had always assumed prior to your email that 'known to Git' meant
>> 'tracked' or 'recorded in the index'...
>
> i *know* i've been in this discussion before, but i don't remember
> where, i *assume* it was
On Mon, 21 May 2018, Elijah Newren wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> I had always assumed prior to your email that 'known to Git' meant
> 'tracked' or 'recorded in the index'...
i *know* i've been in this discussion before, but i don't remember
where, i *assume* it was on this list, and i recall someone
On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 12:09 AM, Elijah Newren wrote:
>
> I had always assumed prior to your email that 'known to Git' meant
> 'tracked' or 'recorded in the index'.
That's been my intention as well ;-)
> From Documentation/git-clean.txt:
>
> Normally, only files unknown
On Mon, 21 May 2018, Elijah Newren wrote:
> Hi Robert,
> I had always assumed prior to your email that 'known to Git' meant
> 'tracked' or 'recorded in the index'. However, a quick `git grep -i
> known.to.git` shows that we're actually not consistent by what we
> mean with this phrase. A
On Mon, 21 May 2018, Elijah Newren wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 4:18 AM, Robert P. J. Day
> wrote:
> >
> > updating my git courseware and, since some man pages refer to files
> > "known to git", i just want to make sure i understand precisely which
>
On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 5:09 PM, Elijah Newren wrote:
> Robert, since you're working on documentation of sorts anyway, would
> you like to propose some patches to fix things here? I'm not entirely
> sure what to suggest, and we might need a random suggestion to get the
>
Hi Robert,
On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 4:18 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> updating my git courseware and, since some man pages refer to files
> "known to git", i just want to make sure i understand precisely which
> files those are. AIUI, they would include:
>
> *
On May 21, 2018 7:19 AM, Robert P. J. Day:
> updating my git courseware and, since some man pages refer to files
> "known to git", i just want to make sure i understand precisely which
files
> those are. AIUI, they would include:
>
> * tracked files
> * ignored files
> * new files which
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