From: Philip Oakley Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 13:06:08 GMT Subject: Re: bug report on update-index --assume-unchanged Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1417826757.30899.16.camel@segulix> From: "Sérgio Basto" [..] >> Part of the implied question is why "git commit ." would notice when >> when "git commit -a" didn't appear to. So it's unclear as to what the >> user should have expected. >> > I agree with this sentence, this is a bug because: > > git commit -a ( and -a means all ) is incoherent with "git commit ." > This is stupid because when I want commit part of the tree, commit > includes one file that is not included when I say to commit all . > So maybe you should fix, git commit -a to be coherent . Ultimately this (-a vs '.' with --assume-unchanged) is not a 'bug', because it does as planned. However the documenation is 'wrong' or at least misguides many readers. Thank you for bring it to the list's attention. [..] > > Sorry I don't have time to read all messages in thread , > but I'm going to test git with the patch suggest in this thread , at > least, I solve "my" problem for some time ... > My patch, and Junio's 'squash' are to correct the documentation, and especially remove the line about it having an "ignore" capability, which is a promise not kept (your -a vs '.' !). I'll be updating the documenation patch today for review, though that doesn't solve the wider problem of: - 'how to temporarily ignore changes to a tracked file'. -- Philip