Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: >> I don't know whether it was a typo, but we're not talking about >> "commit", but "status". > > No typo. "git status" is literally "git commit --dry-run". Why? Because > people expected it to be called "git status". > > And even if I think about it over and over again, it makes sense. I was surprised of that when looking at the source, but yes, it makes sense. But the message I was replying to claimed that "git status-or-commit -a" _needed_ to put objects in the object database. That's true of "git commit -a" but not of "git status -a", even if you call it "git commit --dry-run -a", precisely because of the --dry-run thing. -- 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
