Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a".

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Nov 30, 2006, 02:12 UTC
Message-ID: <7vejrln0n5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <456E3AB7.1030306@midwinter.com>

Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com> writes:

> But I'm still a relative n00b and would appreciate knowing if I'm just
> missing some big obvious technique.

You are doing just fine. Using commits to do snapshot is another workflow people often use. These people tend to do so in a work branch and cherry-pick the resulting series of commits onto more permanent branch while reorganizing and tidying up the development history to be published to the outside world.

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