On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> >
> > Would it make sense for "git add" to do the same as "git update-index"
> > on already tracked files?  Given the explanation above this would make
> > 100% sense to me.
>
> Yeah, I think it would probably make sense. I also think it would make
> sense to rename "update-index" entirely, or at least offer other names for
> it (ie the "git resolved" suggestion).

On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:16:29 +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:
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> I'm very much for having git-add, -rm, -mv and -resolved as porcelain
> wrappers around git update-index, so there would be even less events
> when you have to use this plumbish command directly.

I'm happy with the direction of having several commands that take the
place of update-index, each with its own name oriented toward what the
user wants to do.

Obviously, "add", "mv", and "rm" have obvious places where the user
wants to use them.

There's the merge case where "resolve" and "resolved" have both been
floated as possible names.

It might even make sense to invent one more name for the case where
the user wants to inform git that a file has been edited and that git
should accept the new contents. It's the sort of "note that file is
edited" operation that could be recommended to the user with "add; fix
typo; commit" confusion.

Sure, "add" could be used again, and "update-index" clearly _works_
but it's a rather ugly name, (and already has "plumbing" functionality
like --add and --remove that we don't want here).

If "resolved" is the name for the new command, then "edited" might
work, but I think these adjectives don't work well next to the more
active verbs that git normally accepts, (and yes, "mv" and "rm" are
verbs even if horribly mangled spellings).

So I'd vote for "resolve" along with something else for the
mark-as-edited case. Maybe "refresh"? That's the best I've thought of
so far. Anyone else have a better suggestion? It does clash with the
separate notion of "git update-index --refresh" which is a bit
annoying. Any other suggestions for this?

-Carl