Subject: Re: Supporting `git add -a <exclude submodules>`

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2023 11:16:29 -0700

Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> writes:

>> (It looks like `git commit -a` does not work with pathspec.
>
> You should be able to do something like 
>
>     $ git commit . ':(exclude)t/'
>
> I think.

Correction.  You would need the "-i(nclude)" option if you do the
above, as the default is "-o(nly)", which will deliberately ignore
what has been added to the index.