Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. I would accept an alias. But so far two people have suggested an alias for this and both have completly failed to achived the desired result. If you know of a test to check if an index exists or not, preferably one that does consider new files being added or files being removed as "index exists", then please do speak up. >> 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. None of the examples have anything to do with checking for an index so that page is rather useless. I know how to set an alias. I just don't know what to put into it. > Nicolas MfG Goswin -- 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