From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:12:14 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a". Message-ID: <7vejrln0n5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <456E3AB7.1030306@midwinter.com> Steven Grimm 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.