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[feature request] Make "commit --only" work with new files

From
Luis Ressel <aranea@aixah.de>
Date
Nov 25, 2016, 16:56 UTC
Message-ID
<20161125175619.19e13e59@gentp.lnet>
Hello,

currently "git commit --only <file>" only works if <file> is already checked into the repo, but not with newly created and still untracked files (builtin/commit.c:list_path() throws the error "error: pathspec '<file>' did not match any file(s) known to git.")

I don't think this limitation is intented. I've had a look at the relevant part of builtin/commit.c, but unfortunately it wasn't obvious to me how to fix this.

Regards, Luis Ressel

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  1. Luis ResselNov 25, 2016
  2. Johannes SchindelinNov 28, 2016
  3. Junio C HamanoNov 28, 2016

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