Re: [PATCH] make 'git add' a first class user friendly interface to the index
On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Alan Chandler wrote:
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> On Friday 01 December 2006 22:31, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:
> ...
> >
> > > +Contrary to other SCMs, with GIT you have to explicitly "add" all the
> > > +changed file content you want to commit together to form a changeset
> > > +with the 'add' command before using the 'commit' command.
> >
> > ... "before a new commit is made"; it is not an offence to leave
> > local changes outside the index. Staging such changes to all
> > files is done using the "-a" flag and that is done "before a new
> > commit is made", but not "before using the 'commit' command" --
> > it is done at the same time.
Bleamphfff... Nah. There is certainly another way to formulate that.
> How about
>
> Contrary to other SCM's, with GIT you have to explicitly "add" the content
> that you want to commit before it is made; it is not an offence to leave
> changes outside the index if you want to leave them to a later commit.
> However if you do want all changes from your working tree to be added to the
> commit before it is made use the "-a" flag with the commit command and the
> content will be added just before the commit is made.
Nah. Too many concepts in the same paragraph.
Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>