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

On Friday 2006 December 01 11:15, Junio C Hamano wrote:

No problem: just don't apply the patch :-) What you've asked for leaves it as a no-op.

This patch activates "-a" when the index equals HEAD. i.e. git-commit would do nothing in this situation. If it is disabled when the index doesn't match the working tree, then we're back to "do nothing". i.e. HEAD==index==working tree.

How does that help you? You've updated the index manually, so the automatic "-a" is already disabled. Without this patch you would still have committed the wrong thing.

 $ edit builtin-blame.c
 $ git update-index builtin-pickaxe.c
 $ git commit

What is that you would like to have happened at this point?

Andy