Re: Documentation/git-commit.txt
On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> By the way, I have been wondering if the --only variant of the
> command should also add untracked files to the index. That is:
>
> $ git commit foo.c '*.h'
>
> currently barfs if foo.c is not tracked, and/or there is no
> tracked header files. We could instead run git-update-index
> --add on them.
That would be a good thing indeed.
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> Incidentally, this would make this sequence possible:
>
> $ tar xf /var/tmp/foo.tar ;# extract tarball here.
> $ git init-db
> $ git commit -m 'initial import' .
... making the UI even more consistent.
Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>