Re: [PATCH/RFC] Make git-commit cleverer - have it figure out whether it needs -a automatically

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 30, 2006, 13:13 UTC
Message-ID: <ekmlar$ask$2@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <200611301259.32387.andyparkins@gmail.com>

Andy Parkins wrote:

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> Raimund Bauer offered this suggestion (paraphrased):
> 
> "Maybe we could do git-commit -a  _only_ if the index matches HEAD, and
> otherwise keep current behavior?  So people who don't care about the
> index won't get tripped up, and when you do have a dirty index, you get
> told about it?"
> 
> Johannes Schindelin pointed out that this isn't the right thing to do for
> an --amend, so that is checked for.
> 
> Additionally, it's probably not the right thing to do if any files are
> specified with "--only" or "--include", so they turn this behaviour off
> as well.

Could we add suggestion by Andreas Ericsson to print in the "smart commit" case:

  Nothing to commit but changes in working tree. Assuming 'git commit -a'

or something like that?

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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