From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:40:09 GMT
Subject: Re: Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added
Message-ID: <vpq7hnzcgjq.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <7vsk6n2n48.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

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

> Think of this sequence:

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.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/