Re: Git commit won't add an untracked file given on the command line

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 19, 2008, 01:51 UTC
Message-ID: <7vtza4trdp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0811190206170.30769@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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> It may be a traditional wart, but a helpful one.  Remember, you can also 
> say:
>
> 	git commit that/directory/
>
> I do _not_ want Git to add all untracked (and unignored) files in that 
> directory automatically.

Yes, very much so.

Although it is conceivable that we may want to change that to behave more like "git add that/directory && git commit that/directory", that is a rather large UI semantics change (even if it could be a useful one) that needs to wait for a major version bump, perhaps in 1.7.0.

I think Mark's update to the documentation is a good thing to have in any case, so I've applied it.