On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > I personaly have to work with different SCMs every day and every time I > have to switch minds to work with each specific one. Making git commit > work less surprising would be one less thing to keep in mind. Please make yourself some git aliases and your problem will be solved. After all, the alias mechanism was created for a reason. > You like that Git is different so don't use the --a-if-empty option. You > will have lost nothing by allowing that option in. So far I have read > arguments from people saying they don't want to USE the option. But no > arguments why there could not be such an option. And I'm not the only > one that would welcome such an option. Is there no room for a compromise? I suggest you have a look at all the examples (some are simple, some are complex) here: https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Aliases. It should be simple to make an alias with all the safety valves you might think of, and then it could even be contributed to section 7 of that page. Nicolas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html