From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:57:56 GMT
Subject: Re: Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added
Message-ID: <x2rb4087cc51004221457v1460ffctf29bc0fd90d75aee@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpq7hnzcgjq.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 16:40, Matthieu Moy
<Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
> 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 original feature request is pretty specific and still backwards
compatible with this case; indeed, the feature request is almost
99.9999% backwards compatible from what I've skimmed.