Re: [feature request] allow directly committing untracked files

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Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de>

Date

Aug 25, 2025, 07:45 UTC

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On Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 06:45:30AM +0000, Isaac Oscar Gariano wrote:

> I often use 'git commit some-file -m 'some message'" to quickly make a commit, but this is annoying as it doesn't work if some-file is untracked, you first have to do 'git add some-file'.
> It would also be nice to do this with the `-a` option as well.
> Is there any reason why git does not let you do this?
> Would people be open to me making a patch that ads this? Would it need to be behind an option for backwards-compatibility?

Hello,

Thanks

Michal