On Friday 2006 December 01 11:15, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I think another exception should be needed. If the index does > not match the working tree, it should not default to "-a". No problem: just don't apply the patch :-) What you've asked for leaves it as a no-op. This patch activates "-a" when the index equals HEAD. i.e. git-commit would do nothing in this situation. If it is disabled when the index doesn't match the working tree, then we're back to "do nothing". i.e. HEAD==index==working tree. > So, please turn this "cleverness" off when the index does not > match the working tree. How does that help you? You've updated the index manually, so the automatic "-a" is already disabled. Without this patch you would still have committed the wrong thing. $ edit builtin-blame.c $ git update-index builtin-pickaxe.c $ git commit What is that you would like to have happened at this point? Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE andyparkins@xxxxxxxxx - 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