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

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:28:15 +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.
> 
> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy asked that git-commit let you know it's done this
> by adding an extra comment to the commit message.

Insount on #git pointed out fragility of this solution with respect
to adding/removing/moving files, which dirties index (which might not be
understood by newbie user: "git commit" used to work, but doesn't work the
same when I added some files).
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git