In http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Basics-Recording-Changes-to-the-Repository Notice how you don’t have to run git add on the benchmarks.rb file in this case before you commit. I think how should be changed to now-- 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