From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 22:57:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [Census] So who uses git?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602011747380.25300@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v8xsu91vf.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

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

> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> 
> > If somebody doesn't know about the index, he normally will never have 
> > index changes _anyway_, except for the "git add" case. In which case "git 
> > commit" does the right thing for him: it will either commit the added 
> > files, or it will say "nothing to commit".
> 
> ... 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.

Actually, the original complaint was about "git commit path ...", I 
believe. That's the case where new users are finding that the behavior is 
surprising, rather than just unfamiliar.

	-Daniel
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