2012/2/7 Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>: > Unless you are doing "commit -a" or "commit pathspec", you are responsible > for adding all contents you want to have in the commit before you run the > "git commit" command (and for the purpose of this statement, "add -N" to > tell Git to keey an eye on a path does _not_ add contents). A change to > the file in the working tree that is left unadded is what you decided to > deliberately leave out of the commit, be it a change to a path already in > HEAD, or a path marked with "add -N". Forgetting to add modified file and > forgetting to add a file you earlier used "add -N" amount to the same kind > of risk, and "git status" is the way to make sure your partial commit has > exactly what you want (if you are not worried about partial commit, you > would be doing "commit -a", so the "safety" is a moot point). We need something in the commit message so that 5 years from now, when someone raises the issue again, (s)he does not have to search the mail archive. May I steal the above paragraph, maybe rephrase a little bit, for commit message? -- Duy -- 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