Subject: Re: Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added

From: Tomas Carnecky <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:22:34 +0200

On 4/23/10 11:09 AM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> For SVN users it gets much worse:
>
> vi existing-file.c # do some changes
> vi new-file.c      # create the file
> git add new-file.c
> vi new-file.c      # do some more changes
> git commit
>
> A SVN user would expect the current working copies of existing-file.c
> and new-file.c to be commited. Instead only new-file.c is commited and
> only the fist modification.

But is compatibility with the SVN interface really what we want to aim 
for? Just because their interface works that way doesn't mean it's the 
correct way.

tom