Re: [Census] So who uses git?

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Feb 1, 2006, 22:35 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602011433290.21884@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v8xsu91vf.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 
> ... the original complaint was that "git commit" without
> explicit paths does not quack like "cvs/svn commit" -- commit
> all my changes in the working tree.

Agreed. However, I think that one is pretty easy to explain, and conceptually it's not a problem to just tell people to use the "-a" flag if they want to get CVS/SVN semantics.

After all, "git commit" will actually make it pretty obvious in the commit message status, _and_ if you haven't done any "git add" you'll get the "nothing to commit" thing, so it's not like this is hard to explain.

The real _confusion_ I think came from the filename usage.

		Linus

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