Re: Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added

From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 23, 2010, 20:26 UTC
Message-ID: <p2wb4087cc51004231326t1e92a59eg555024eaa4fd51e6@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87aastx6sa.fsf@frosties.localdomain>

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 15:17, Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de> wrote:

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> But you are already rejecting it in the design phase before there even
> is a patch.
> ...
> You like that Git is different so don't use the --a-if-empty option. You
> will have lost nothing by allowing that option in. So far I have read
> arguments from people saying they don't want to USE the option. But no
> arguments why there could not be such an option. And I'm not the only
> one that would welcome such an option. Is there no room for a compromise?

My sincere advice is just to write the patch and submit it with an example usage to illustrate your feature.

Prose aren't well received on this list (especially without concrete code to reference).