Juergen Ruehle <j.ruehle@bmiag.de> writes:

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> Junio C Hamano writes:
>  > Juergen Ruehle <j.ruehle@bmiag.de> writes:
>  > 
>  > > Junio C Hamano writes:
>  > >  > If there is something you are missing, it is that I am
>  > >  > overloaded these days ;-).
>  > >
>  > > I'm sorry. As a rather unsuccessful former maintainer of
>  > > http://www.openarchitectureware.org/ I can fully appreciate git's luck
>  > > to have such a dedicated maintainer.
>  > 
>  > Actually there is one difference that I found practically
>  > important.  It usually is a norm for me to have a handful
>  > untracked files that I do not even bother adding to .gitignore
>  > in the repository.  My patch does not suggest "add" when there
>  > are untracked files but no locally modified files.
>
> Yes. I don't have a real preference. I have a slight suspicion that
> the hint is useful for newbies because having only untracked files is
> the initial situation, but the hint in my patch is actually wrong
> because git-commit won't help in this situation. Do you want to revert
> the patch and apply yours or should I send a correction?

I think it is Ok to give hints for untracked files -- with
experience eyes will learn to ignore them but by then they do
not need hints.  Please send in a correction as appropriate.

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