Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Make git-commit cleverer - have it figure out whether it needs -a automatically

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:13:47 +0100

Andy Parkins wrote:

> Raimund Bauer offered this suggestion (paraphrased):
> 
> "Maybe we could do git-commit -a  _only_ if the index matches HEAD, and
> otherwise keep current behavior?  So people who don't care about the
> index won't get tripped up, and when you do have a dirty index, you get
> told about it?"
> 
> Johannes Schindelin pointed out that this isn't the right thing to do for
> an --amend, so that is checked for.
> 
> Additionally, it's probably not the right thing to do if any files are
> specified with "--only" or "--include", so they turn this behaviour off
> as well.

Could we add suggestion by Andreas Ericsson to print in the "smart commit"
case:

  Nothing to commit but changes in working tree. Assuming 'git commit -a'

or something like that?
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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