Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > By the way, short option -i is not --index but --include (i.e. commit > both changes in index and files mentioned on command line). Perhaps -I? Just in case nobody noticed after looking at the first part of my patch a few nights ago, --include happens to mean exactly what --index would mean anyway. By default, "git commit" without parameter does "make a commit out of the index". With paths, it used to mean "oh, by the way, I forgot to run update-index on these paths, so could you please do that for me now before you make the commit", and has been that way for a long time. Much later, people from CVS background wanted to say "edit foo bar; git update-index bar; git commit foo" to mean "I might have done something to the index, but I do not want to care about it now -- please make a commit that includes only the changes to bar and I do not want the changes to foo included in the commit". Somehow we ended up introducing that twisted semantics and that was where --only came from, which unfortunately later became the default (and I already said that I realize this was a big mistake). While we transitioned to switch the default, we first came up with a name to ask for the traditional semantics (--include), warned people who gave paths without either -i nor -o that the --include semantics is still the default but would change soon (which meant that -i was a no-op back then), then switched the default and we now warn that the default is now -o (so now -o is a no-op) when people give only paths without -i nor -o. Currently (that is, without the first part of my two patches), "git commit -i" and "git commit -o" without paths refuse to work, saying that these modes of operation do not make sense without any path. However, you can think of the simplest "commit the current index" semantics as a degenerated case of saying "oh, by the way, please run update-index on these paths I forgot to do earlier before you make the commit" and giving no paths. So "git commit -i" without paths _could_ mean "commit the index as is" very naturally without introducing an independent switch with different name. That is what the first part of my two patches to Carl does. - 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