Andy Parkins <andyparkins@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Raimund Bauer offered this suggestion (paraphrased): > > "Maybe we could do git-commit -a _only_ if the index matches HEAD, and > otherwise keep current behavior? So people who don't care about the > index won't get tripped up, and when you do have a dirty index, you get > told about it?" > > Johannes Schindelin pointed out that this isn't the right thing to do for > an --amend, so that is checked for. Additionally, it's probably not the > right thing to do if any files are specified with "--only" or > "--include", so they turn this behaviour off as well. > > Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy asked that git-commit let you know it's done this > by adding an extra comment to the commit message. I think another exception should be needed. If the index does not match the working tree, it should not default to "-a". Otherwise, I want to fix another thing in pickaxe. $ edit builtin-blame.c My wife calls me. Away from desk for 20 minutes. Later I come back. $ git update-index builtin-pickaxe.c I am so used to that name and did not realize that typo, and I was not paying too much attention. My wife calls me again. Away from desk and back in 20 minutes. $ git commit -m 'git-blame: Another fix.' Oops. So, please turn this "cleverness" off when the index does not match the working tree. - 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