Re: Question about "git commit -a"

On 10/5/07, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote: [...]

Fair enough.

Another try to have an easy explanation of how the staging area works:

paolo@paolo-desktop:~/HowIndexWorks$ ls A B C D E F G

Now I edit A,B,C,D and E:

$ echo A >> A $ echo B >> B $ echo C >> C $ echo D >> D $ echo E >> E

I now realize want to only commit the changes I did to A,B,C,D. First step is to place A,B,C and D into the staging area: $ git add A B C D

Now I can commit:
$ git commitpaolo@paolo-desktop:~/HowIndexWorks$ git commit
Created commit 16032dc: I modified A,B,C and D
 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

It's now time to work on F and G: $ echo F >> F $ echo G >> G

Current status is: paolo@paolo-desktop:~/HowIndexWorks$ git status # On branch master # Changed but not updated: # (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed) # # modified: E # modified: F # modified: G

Instead of adding E,F and G to the staging are and then commit them in two steps I can using a single command: $ git commit E F G (in this case it's equivalent to git commit -a)

paolo@paolo-desktop:~/HowIndexWorks$ git commit E F G
Created commit 69ec8be: I modified E, F and G
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

status now is: paolo@paolo-desktop:~/HowIndexWorks$ git status # On branch master nothing to commit (working directory clean)

Regards,