From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:29:57 GMT
Subject: Re: 'commit -a' safety
Message-ID: <k2vfc339e4a1004240629sd0249654u17e5df1b3a77bff2@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201004241226.34884.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> Third, there is "git add -N" to mark file as tracked, but not add its
> current context.
>
>  $ git add -N file
>  $ edit file
>  $ git commit -a

Meh.  It's going to still require people to change their habits, and
while requiring people to use -N whenever they think they may want to
use "commit -a" later would work, it feels awkward and artificial.

All in all, it just doesn't smell clean, and I suspect that would
prevent many people from enabling such a feature.

-Miles

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