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

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

There's another case where it would be hard to decide what's "The Right Thing":

vi existing-file.c # do some changes vi new-file.c # create the file git add new-file.c git commit

If you take the SVN semantics, the last "git commit" should commit the changes to existing-file.c. But keeping the current Git semantics, it doesn't. There are valid reasons why a user can type the above sequence with today's Git, and changing it would be backward incompatible, and would make the senario a lot more painfull.