Re: 'commit -a' safety (was: Re: Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added)

On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 11:54, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:

Depends on what you consider "customizing your index". I add files to the index all the time as I'm working on things, then commit -a at the end "without thinking twice".

For example:
1) Hack on something.
2) git add $thing
3) Run full test-suite.
4) Fix a failing module.
5) git add $fixed-module-and-tests
6) Repeat 3-5 until there's only one module failing.
7) Fix last failing module.
8) git commit -a

I doubt I'm the only one that stages things as a way of marking them as "done", and using git commit -a to "check-off" the last "todo" item.