From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] add: warn when pathspec only matches SKIP_WORKTREE entries
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2021 14:48:50 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABPp-BE7kOuGdF0hyMYhUW_Ts+wniAaM+EKU+h65RD-_wkmVTQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq5z26eime.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 1:03 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I think it's kind of lame that git-add won't provide a warning for
> > ignored files when the match is via glob/pattern; if git-add didn't
> > end up adding anything, but an ignored file was matched, I think a
> > warning is appropriate.
>
> I am not so sure. When I have this in my exclude list:
>
> tmp-*
>
> and have this file in the working tree:
>
> tmp-000.txt
>
> I am not sure if I want to see any such warning when I did
>
> $ git add "*.txt"
>
> After all, I said that I never would want to worry about anything
> that begins with "tmp-". It would be a totally different issue if I
> did
>
> $ git add tmp-000.txt
>
> as I am contermanding my previous wish and saying that I care about
> this particular file, even if its name begins with "tmp-".
>
> So far, the flow of logic is simple, clear and straight-forward.
>
> BUT.
>
> What makes the whole thing tricky is that people don't do
>
> $ git add "*.txt"
>
> The instead do
>
> $ git add *.txt
>
> and "git add" cannot tell if the tmp-000.txt it sees is what the
> user meant, or what the shell expanded.
>
> If there were no shell glob expansion, then "warn only if a
> glob/pattern did not match any" would have been an attractive
> option, especially when we had another file in the working tree,
> say, hello.txt, next to the tmp-000.txt. Then
>
> $ git add "*.txt"
>
> would add only hello.txt, and we won't see a warning about
> tmp-000.txt. But end-users will use shell expansion, i.e.
>
> $ git add *.txt
>
> (1) warning against tmp-000.txt because the command line named it
> explicitly (from "git add"'s point of view, but never from the
> user's point of view) would be a disaster. I think that is why
> your suggestion was "if git-add did not add anything then warn".
> but ...
>
> (2) not warning, because the command line named hello.txt as well,
> i.e. "git add" added something, would make it inconsistent.
> Whether there is another file whose name ends with .txt, what
> the user typed (i.e. *.txt) to the command line is the same, and
> the exclude pattern (i.e. tmp-*) is the same, but the presence
> of an unrelated hello.txt affects if a warning is given for
> tmp-000.txt.
>
> So, I dunno.
Fair enough. All the more reason to leave it out of Matheus' patch
series, then. :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-04 22:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 93+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-12 21:01 [PATCH] rm: honor sparse checkout patterns Matheus Tavares
2020-11-12 23:54 ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-13 13:47 ` Derrick Stolee
2020-11-15 20:12 ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2020-11-15 21:42 ` Johannes Sixt
2020-11-16 12:37 ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2020-11-23 13:23 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-11-24 2:48 ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2020-11-16 14:30 ` Jeff Hostetler
2020-11-17 4:53 ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-16 13:58 ` [PATCH v2] " Matheus Tavares
2021-02-17 21:02 ` [RFC PATCH 0/7] add/rm: honor sparse checkout and warn on sparse paths Matheus Tavares
2021-02-17 21:02 ` [RFC PATCH 1/7] add --chmod: don't update index when --dry-run is used Matheus Tavares
2021-02-17 21:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-18 1:33 ` Matheus Tavares
2021-02-17 21:02 ` [RFC PATCH 2/7] add: include magic part of pathspec on --refresh error Matheus Tavares
2021-02-17 22:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-17 21:02 ` [RFC PATCH 3/7] t3705: add tests for `git add` in sparse checkouts Matheus Tavares
2021-02-17 23:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-17 23:22 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-02-17 23:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-18 3:11 ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2021-02-18 3:07 ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2021-02-18 14:38 ` Matheus Tavares
2021-02-18 19:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-18 19:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-22 18:53 ` Elijah Newren
2021-02-17 21:02 ` [RFC PATCH 4/7] add: make --chmod and --renormalize honor " Matheus Tavares
2021-02-17 21:02 ` [RFC PATCH 5/7] pathspec: allow to ignore SKIP_WORKTREE entries on index matching Matheus Tavares
2021-02-17 21:02 ` [RFC PATCH 6/7] add: warn when pathspec only matches SKIP_WORKTREE entries Matheus Tavares
2021-02-19 0:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-02-19 17:11 ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2021-02-17 21:02 ` [RFC PATCH 7/7] rm: honor sparse checkout patterns Matheus Tavares
2021-02-22 18:57 ` [RFC PATCH 0/7] add/rm: honor sparse checkout and warn on sparse paths Elijah Newren
2021-02-24 4:05 ` [PATCH v2 " Matheus Tavares
2021-02-24 4:05 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] add: include magic part of pathspec on --refresh error Matheus Tavares
2021-02-24 4:05 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] t3705: add tests for `git add` in sparse checkouts Matheus Tavares
2021-02-24 5:15 ` Elijah Newren
2021-02-24 4:05 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] add: make --chmod and --renormalize honor " Matheus Tavares
2021-02-24 4:05 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] pathspec: allow to ignore SKIP_WORKTREE entries on index matching Matheus Tavares
2021-02-24 5:23 ` Elijah Newren
2021-02-24 4:05 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] refresh_index(): add REFRESH_DONT_MARK_SPARSE_MATCHES flag Matheus Tavares
2021-02-24 4:05 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] add: warn when pathspec only matches SKIP_WORKTREE entries Matheus Tavares
2021-02-24 6:50 ` Elijah Newren
2021-02-24 15:33 ` Matheus Tavares
2021-03-04 15:23 ` Matheus Tavares
2021-03-04 17:21 ` Elijah Newren
2021-03-04 21:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-04 22:48 ` Elijah Newren [this message]
2021-03-04 21:26 ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2021-02-24 4:05 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] rm: honor sparse checkout patterns Matheus Tavares
2021-02-24 6:59 ` Elijah Newren
2021-02-24 7:05 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] add/rm: honor sparse checkout and warn on sparse paths Elijah Newren
2021-03-12 22:47 ` [PATCH v3 " Matheus Tavares
2021-03-12 22:47 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] add: include magic part of pathspec on --refresh error Matheus Tavares
2021-03-12 22:47 ` [PATCH v3 2/7] t3705: add tests for `git add` in sparse checkouts Matheus Tavares
2021-03-23 20:00 ` Derrick Stolee
2021-03-12 22:47 ` [PATCH v3 3/7] add: make --chmod and --renormalize honor " Matheus Tavares
2021-03-12 22:47 ` [PATCH v3 4/7] pathspec: allow to ignore SKIP_WORKTREE entries on index matching Matheus Tavares
2021-03-12 22:48 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] refresh_index(): add REFRESH_DONT_MARK_SPARSE_MATCHES flag Matheus Tavares
2021-03-18 23:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-19 0:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-19 12:23 ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2021-03-19 16:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-30 18:51 ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2021-03-31 9:14 ` Elijah Newren
2021-03-12 22:48 ` [PATCH v3 6/7] add: warn when asked to update SKIP_WORKTREE entries Matheus Tavares
2021-03-12 22:48 ` [PATCH v3 7/7] rm: honor sparse checkout patterns Matheus Tavares
2021-03-21 23:03 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-22 1:08 ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2021-03-23 20:47 ` Derrick Stolee
2021-03-13 7:07 ` [PATCH v3 0/7] add/rm: honor sparse checkout and warn on sparse paths Elijah Newren
2021-04-08 20:41 ` [PATCH v4 " Matheus Tavares
2021-04-08 20:41 ` [PATCH v4 1/7] add: include magic part of pathspec on --refresh error Matheus Tavares
2021-04-08 20:41 ` [PATCH v4 2/7] t3705: add tests for `git add` in sparse checkouts Matheus Tavares
2021-04-14 16:39 ` Derrick Stolee
2021-04-08 20:41 ` [PATCH v4 3/7] add: make --chmod and --renormalize honor " Matheus Tavares
2021-04-08 20:41 ` [PATCH v4 4/7] pathspec: allow to ignore SKIP_WORKTREE entries on index matching Matheus Tavares
2021-04-08 20:41 ` [PATCH v4 5/7] refresh_index(): add flag to ignore SKIP_WORKTREE entries Matheus Tavares
2021-04-08 20:41 ` [PATCH v4 6/7] add: warn when asked to update " Matheus Tavares
2021-04-08 20:41 ` [PATCH v4 7/7] rm: honor sparse checkout patterns Matheus Tavares
2021-04-14 16:36 ` [PATCH v4 0/7] add/rm: honor sparse checkout and warn on sparse paths Elijah Newren
2021-04-14 18:04 ` Matheus Tavares Bernardino
2021-04-16 21:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-16 23:17 ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-16 20:14 ` [PATCH] rm: honor sparse checkout patterns Junio C Hamano
2020-11-17 5:20 ` Elijah Newren
2020-11-20 17:06 ` Elijah Newren
2020-12-31 20:03 ` sparse-checkout questions and proposals [Was: Re: [PATCH] rm: honor sparse checkout patterns] Elijah Newren
2021-01-04 3:02 ` Derrick Stolee
2021-01-06 19:15 ` Elijah Newren
2021-01-07 12:53 ` Derrick Stolee
2021-01-07 17:36 ` Elijah Newren
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