From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 04:56:24 GMT
Subject: Re: git commit -p with file arguments
Message-ID: <CA+P7+xo8QWRjON9Wp9vS0ymnSYTjnq=Qh4iR_EWYiULk86hBOg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqa8fd6fs7.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 6:57 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> You are excused ;-)
>
> In ancient days, "git commit <pathspec>" was to add the contents
> from working tree files that match <pathspec> to what is already in
> the index and create a commit from that state.  This ran against the
> intuition of many users who knew older systems (e.g. cvs) and we had
> to migrate it to the current behaviour by breaking backward
> compatibility.

I see.

Thanks,
Jake