From: Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 06:22:10 GMT
Subject: Re: Global .git directory
Message-ID: <4BD7D412.5020603@dbservice.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1004280710380.27548@bbs.intern>

On 4/28/10 7:33 AM, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
> BTW: The tutorial on http://git-scm.com/ is IHMO wrong:
> git --version
> git version 1.6.2.5
> git commit -m 'Explain what I changed'
> =>
> git commit -a -m 'Explain what I changed'
> => Otherwise changed files are not committed, only added ones.
> => Therefore that are 2 commit ...

If you mean the snippets right on the front page, it assumes that you 
add all edited files.

> BTW2:
> Why is it necessary to do:
> # Displays only changed files
> git diff
> # Displays only added files
> git diff --cached
>
> I would like to have a full diff of my changes:
> git diff -a
> (or better "git diff -a" should be the default behaviour, I think that's
> very confusing for new users)

What are 'your' changes? Between HEAD and the working tree (aka. git 
diff HEAD)?

tom