From: Nicolas Pitre Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 02:01:04 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] make 'git add' a first class user friendly interface to the index Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200612020018.32672.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Friday 01 December 2006 22:31, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Nicolas Pitre 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 Before what is made? > 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.