From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 22:50:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [Census] So who uses git?
Message-ID: <7v8xsu7kys.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602011717010.5397@localhost.localdomain>

Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:

> Actually, my opinion is that should be the behavior for your first item 
> above (when only filenames are specified).  If you want to _also_ 
> include the index like you describe in your first item then an 
> additional switch should be provided.

OK, agreed.  Sorry to be slow.

So, to recap:

git commit paths...			(temporary index thing)
git commit --incremental paths...	(same as current w/o --incremental)
git commit               		(same as current)
git commit -a				(same as current)	

And I agree with Joel that we should not automatically imply
"git add" with or without --incremental.

I do not particularly have much preference among --also,
--with-index, or --incremental, but:

 - 'with-index' is precise but might be too technical;
 - 'incremental' is not really incremental -- you can use it
   only once.

Because you do not have to say "git commit --also" without paths
(which _is_ awkward) to get the traditional behaviour, maybe it
is a good name for that flag (it is also the shortest).