Re: git commit error on initial (the very first) commit

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Jan 29, 2006, 21:08 UTC
Message-ID: <7v1wyqivx1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060129181625.GA5540@fieldses.org>

"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:

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> On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 08:26:54PM +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
>> May be I do something wrong? What is correct procedure to initially import 
>> tree? git 1.1.4
>> 
>> {pts/0}% git init-db
>> defaulting to local storage area
>> {pts/0}% git add .
>> {pts/0}% git commit -m 'initial import'
>
> It needs to know which paths to update.

While I agree with you that individual developers should always say "commit -a" after testing their changes, I do not think that has much to do with Andrey's problem.

In a freshly created repository, "git add ." would register everything to the index file, and a "git commit" with or without "-a" that immediately follows "git add ." would commit what is in the index. Use of "-a" would not make a difference here.