From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 04:56:58 GMT
Subject: Re: I suggest that git commit support -A option, just like hg does.thanks.
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In-Reply-To: <buoy5z4ed3w.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com>

Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

> Remember:  "just add an alias!" is an acceptable answer only if the
> desired feature is odd/unusual.  For desired features that are likely
> to be generally useful, git should do the right thing, out of the box,
> for everybody.

The reason I deliberately chose to use capital letter in "add -A" even
when we do not have "add -a" was exactly so that interested parties can do
"commit -A" to match it (and "commit -a" is doing the _right_ thing out of
the box, and its behaviour will not change). Hopefully you can take it as
a strong hint that I personally do not think "commit -A" is without merit.

So far, nobody stepped up to do it, though. I have been taking it as a
sign that "commit -A" is not one of the commonly desired features but is
probably closer to your "odd/unusual". It's up to the user/developer
community to change that ;-)