From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:14:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Make git-commit cleverer - have it figure out whether it needs -a automatically
Message-ID: <81b0412b0611300914u521a5351idde23618c2fbf017@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200611301259.32387.andyparkins@gmail.com>

On 11/30/06, Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> wrote:
> "Maybe we could do git-commit -a  _only_ if the index matches HEAD, and
> otherwise keep current behavior?  So people who don't care about the
> index won't get tripped up, and when you do have a dirty index, you get
> told about it?"

The is dangerous on filesystems which lie to the programs about file metadata.
The "virtual filesystem" of cygwin is one of this kind: exec-bit of
the files depend
on its contents. Just calling git-commit -a will commit executability
at this particular
moment. For whatever reason, disabling handling of the exec-mode in gits config
does not work.

If you about to change the behaviour, provide at least a config option
to go back