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Re: Add warning when there are changes in the index and using -a with git commit

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Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 21, 2010, 21:21 UTC
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Heya,
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 22:20, Sylvain Rabot <sylvain@abstraction.fr> wrote:
> Many times I had the bad reflex of doing a git commit -as -m "blah
> blah" when I was willing to commit only things I had staged in the
> index.

Me too, and I think I brought it up in the past and it was dismissed as being too annoying, but I'm not sure. Either way, you can work around it by creating your own 'git-co' wrapper that does the check and use that instead of 'git commit'.

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier
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  1. Sylvain RabotApr 21, 2010
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  3. Eli BarzilayApr 21, 2010
  4. Wincent ColaiutaApr 21, 2010
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