From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:09:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a".
Message-ID: <456EBBE7.8030404@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611291859070.3513@woody.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> That said, I have to admit that I usually (a) don't do this very often (ie 
> this is not part of my daily routine) and (b) I tend to do "git reset" 
> fairly soon afterwards (or alternatively, just "git commit -a") to get 
> back to the situation where the index will match the current HEAD 100% 
> again. So the "index doesn't match HEAD" situation is always just a 
> _temporary_ thing for me.
> 

A staging area is per definition meant to keep temporary things before 
they are committed to their designated place so there's nothing odd 
about that.

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson@op5.se
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