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Re: Documentation: user-manual: "git commit -a" doesn't motivate .gitignore

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Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date
Aug 6, 2008, 21:47 UTC
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<20080806214747.GY32057@genesis.frugalware.org>
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<Pine.GSO.4.62.0808061603340.18817@harper.uchicago.edu>
On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 04:22:00PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> wrote:
> 	happy to know.  Maybe the sort of person that wants to track the
> 	exact contents of the working tree would prefer
> 	"git commit -a -i ." over "git commit -a"?
If you want so, then probably git add -A && git commit is easier.
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