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Re: 2 questions/nits about commit and config

From
Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Date
Feb 4, 2006, 23:00 UTC
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<1139094055.4200.6.camel@evo.keithp.com>
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On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 14:24 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Before people start complaining about it, I take this part
> back.  "git commit -a" inside a subdirectory "foo" is not much
> different from "git commit foo/a foo/b foo/c" from the toplevel
> directory 
making '-a' equivalent to '.' then? Seems like '.' is a whole lot more
understandable than '-a', but maybe that's just my naïvité showing
again. I expected the '-a' flag to commit the whole tree from wherever
you were inside it...
  
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keith.packard@intel.com
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Message 5 of 8 in “2 questions/nits about commit and config”
  1. Michael FischerFeb 4, 2006
  2. Junio C HamanoFeb 4, 2006
  3. Junio C HamanoFeb 4, 2006
  4. Alan ChandlerFeb 4, 2006
  5. Keith PackardFeb 4, 2006
  6. Junio C HamanoFeb 5, 2006
  7. Junio C HamanoFeb 5, 2006
  8. Daniel BarkalowFeb 5, 2006

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