Re: Question about "git commit -a"

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 4, 2007, 23:03 UTC
Message-ID: <20071004230326.GA3092@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <fe3pp3$8p1$1@sea.gmane.org>

David Soria, Fri, Oct 05, 2007 00:34:11 +0200:

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> Am Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:38:25 +0200 schrieb Paolo Ciarrocchi:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > I was just wondering why git commit doesn't default to "-a" (yes, it's
> > another question that came up during a chat with a mercurial user) and
> > I didn't find an answer to that.
> 
> 
> in fact i do just a git-config alias.commit 'commit -a' in my repository
>

Either you have a specially modified git (the alias expansion code) or you just said not exactly truth. You can't alias the git commands (see git.c's main).