Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > Hi, > > On Sun, 6 May 2007, Matthieu Moy wrote: > >> [...] >> >> % git satus -a >> % git commit -a -m "..." >> >> In the former case, I have more commands to type, and in the second >> case, I loose part of the stat-cache benefit: If I run "git status -a" >> twice, the second run will actually diff all the files touched since >> the last run, since "git status -a" actually updated a temporary >> index, and discarded it afterwards, so it doesn't update the stat >> information in the index (while "git status" would have). > > Have you tried "git status" _without_ "-a"? Reading my message (including the last 5 words of the sentence you're quoting) would have told you that ;-). >> In both cases, I can't really see the benefit. > > The benefit is a clear distinguishing between DWIM and low level. The > index contains _exactly_ what you told it to contain. In other systems, commit commits _exactly_ the content of files on disk. And most people seem happy with that. > By forcing users to use "-a" with "git commit", Does this mean that the normal way to use "commit" is to use "-a"? > you make it clear that a separate update steo is involved, Well, with those kind of arguments, I could have my web browser not do DNS resolution for me, because it would make it clear that a separate step from HTTP request is involved. Still, this low-level thing brings no benefit to the user, and I know no web browser forcing the user to make this distinction. > and if you made an error (which you see from the file list), you can > abort, and start over with the original index. You don't necessarily see your error from the file list: % vi foo.c % git add foo.c % vi foo.c % git commit -m foo [...] create mode 100644 foo.c % This commited the old content of foo.c, while I hardly see any scenario where this is the expected behavior. Then, being able to repare the error if I made it is interesting, but I don't get the reason why the error could not just be avoided. Well, indeed, I just found a thread talking about this: http://lists-archives.org/git/196050-making-git-commit-to-mean-git-commit-a.html I'll go through it, I might understand better after that ;-). Thanks, -- Matthieu - 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