Re: which files are "known to git"?

2018-05-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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

Re: which files are "known to git"?

2018-05-21 Thread Junio C Hamano
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

Re: which files are "known to git"?

2018-05-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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.

Re: which files are "known to git"?

2018-05-21 Thread Stefan Beller
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

Re: which files are "known to git"?

2018-05-21 Thread Jonathan Nieder
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

Re: which files are "known to git"?

2018-05-21 Thread Elijah Newren
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

Re: which files are "known to git"?

2018-05-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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

Re: which files are "known to git"?

2018-05-21 Thread Jonathan Nieder
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

Re: which files are "known to git"?

2018-05-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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

Re: which files are "known to git"?

2018-05-21 Thread Junio C Hamano
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

Re: which files are "known to git"?

2018-05-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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

Re: which files are "known to git"?

2018-05-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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 >

Re: which files are "known to git"?

2018-05-21 Thread Duy Nguyen
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 >

Re: which files are "known to git"?

2018-05-21 Thread Elijah Newren
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: > > *

RE: which files are "known to git"?

2018-05-21 Thread Randall S. Becker
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