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* basics - auto staging?
@ 2025-04-30 10:18 Marcin Mikłas
  2025-04-30 16:44 ` Junio C Hamano
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From: Marcin Mikłas @ 2025-04-30 10:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: git

Hello,

when I execute
git commit file.txt
(by listing file as argumentbut without the -a switch) for a file 
file.txt that I have made changes without staged them in the index, the 
changes are still commited.
Is there a way to make this work like command
git commit
without committing the changes that are not staged in the index?

Best
Marcin


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* Re: basics - auto staging?
  2025-04-30 10:18 basics - auto staging? Marcin Mikłas
@ 2025-04-30 16:44 ` Junio C Hamano
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Junio C Hamano @ 2025-04-30 16:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Marcin Mikłas; +Cc: git

Marcin Mikłas <m.miklas@wszib•edu.pl> writes:

> when I execute
> git commit file.txt
> (by listing file as argumentbut without the -a switch) for a file
> file.txt that I have made changes without staged them in the index,
> the changes are still commited.
> Is there a way to make this work like command
> git commit
> without committing the changes that are not staged in the index?

I do not think there is.

The "git commit --only [<pathspec>...]" mode (which is the default)
was introduced as a variant whose blast radius is much smaller than
the "git commit --include [<pathspec>...]" mode (which was the only
mode before "--only" was introduced), but what you seem to be after
is a mode that is even finer-grained one.

I do not offhand see a reason why such a mode should not exist.  It
would be called the "git commit --cached [<pathspec>...]" mode (that
would be listed next to the existing "--only" and "--include" modes
in the documentation), by taking inspiration from the name of
another command "git diff --cached [<pathspec>...]" (i.e., use only
the contents already added to the index), if we were to add one.



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