Re: Importing from tarballs; add, rm, update-index?

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 14, 2007, 12:42 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701141340020.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20070113203456.GA17648@spearce.org>

Hi,

On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

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> Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com> wrote:
> > Yes.  It sounds very much like you want to simply do "git add . ; git  
> > commit -a".  But making that the default for "commit -a" would be  
> > obnoxious for many other people.
> 
> I find it annoying that "commit -a" isn't implemented in terms of
> "git add .".  Mainly because I'll make a number of changes in Eclipse
> then go back and do "commit -a" and only days later discover that
> I have untracked files in my working directory which should have
> been added to the commit several days ago.

You mean, you _ignored_ the text "git commit -a" gives you? It really shows you the output of "git status", exactly so you know what you committed, and sometimes more importantly, what you didn't.

I mean, "git commit" spends a lot of time getting that information, so you better use it.

Ciao, Dscho