Re: [PATCH] make 'git add' a first class user friendly interface to the index

From: Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
Date: Dec 2, 2006, 00:18 UTC
Message-ID: <200612020018.32672.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <7vpsb36yem.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Friday 01 December 2006 22:31, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:

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> > +Contrary to other SCMs, with GIT you have to explicitly "add" all the
> > +changed file content you want to commit together to form a changeset
> > +with the 'add' command before using the 'commit' command.
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> ... "before a new commit is made"; it is not an offence to leave
> local changes outside the index.  Staging such changes to all
> files is done using the "-a" flag and that is done "before a new
> commit is made", but not "before using the 'commit' command" --
> it is done at the same time.

How about

Contrary to other SCM's, with GIT you have to explicitly "add" the content that you want to commit before it is made; it is not an offence to leave changes outside the index if you want to leave them to a later commit. However if you do want all changes from your working tree to be added to the commit before it is made use the "-a" flag with the commit command and the content will be added just before the commit is made.

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Alan Chandler