Re: Many gits are offline this week

From: David Brown <git@davidb.org>
Date: Oct 5, 2007, 16:20 UTC
Message-ID: <20071005162029.GA18522@old.davidb.org>
In-Reply-To: <37fcd2780710050741x1760a585yeaa9023a8d8cdccf@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 06:41:43PM +0400, Dmitry Potapov wrote:

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>I believe I have found one mistake in your slides. Slide 18 reads:
>"git-commit -a" is like "git-add .; git-commit"
>
>But it is incorrect, because "git-commit -a" does not add new files, so
>it works like "git-add -u .; git-commit".

"git-commit -a" also detects files that have been deleted, whereas "git-add" does not. In fact, I haven't found an easy way to detect this other than "git-commit -a", and it is the only reason I ever run "git-commit -a"

Dave