On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 21:34, Michael Witten <mfwitten@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The proposal was not "default to commit -a" but rather "default to > commit -a when the index has not been explicitly updated with > something like git add". For what it's worth, from another relative newcomer: The above would actually cause trouble sometimes for me. Having learned to use git add+git commit, and working on several things at once: edit file1 edit file2 edit file3 git add file3 git commit -m"fixed file3" In the above sequence (relative newcomer, but not entirely) I occasionally forget to do the 'git add file3' part (I just mistakenly thought I did). The way it works now means nothing happens, which is good. The way I understand the proposal I would instead end up with a commit of all my changed files, which is exactly not what I want. I can't stop thinking that it should be easy for anyone who wants the proposed behaviour to make an alias, or certainly a wrapper. Problem solved, without changing the way it works now. -Tor -- 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