Re: commit --strict feature request

From: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 27, 2010, 11:50 UTC
Message-ID: <be6fef0d1003270450s32ab997cmfe6f6b7e6e4a16a8@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4BA8FEA4.60504@gmail.com>

Hi

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Dario Bertini <berdario@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi, i usually use bzr, and today i was searching for a commit --strict
> equivalent in git... i asked around and it seems there isn't one, so i'm
> writing this.
>
> basically, by doing commit --strict it refuses to commit if there are
> untracked (and thus not ignored) files in the tree, this helps against
> forgetting to add new files (actually i find it so useful that i've even
> changed commit to be an alias to commit --strict in my bzr aliases )

check out the pre-commit hook:

  http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/githooks.html#_pre_commit

You could make it scan the directory, then veto the execution of git-commit if any untracked files are found.

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Cheers,
Ray Chuan