Andrew Thorp <andrew.thorp.dev@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> git commit" without pathspec would have made a partial commit that > records only the changes that were added with "git add -p" to the > index, though. > > Yeah, that was the expected behavior, but not what I experienced. Sorry but it does not reproduce for me. Here is my "reproduction recipe", designed to be followable by anybody who has a copy of git and this piece of e-mail without referencing anything else. $ edit Makefile ; git diff Makefile diff --git i/Makefile w/Makefile index 9573190f1d..6bf8f3147b 100644 --- i/Makefile +++ w/Makefile @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# The default target of this Makefile is... +# The default target of this Makefile is..... all:: # Define V=1 to have a more verbose compile. @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ all:: # Define USE_LIBPCRE if you have and want to use libpcre. Various # commands such as log and grep offer runtime options to use # Perl-compatible regular expressions instead of standard or extended -# POSIX regular expressions. +# POSIX regular expressions... # # Only libpcre version 2 is supported. USE_LIBPCRE2 is a synonym for # USE_LIBPCRE, support for the old USE_LIBPCRE1 has been removed. ... You can see that we have two changes to a single file now ... $ printf "y\nn\n" | git add -p >/dev/null $ git status -uno On branch test Changes to be committed: (use "git restore --staged <file>..." to unstage) modified: Makefile Changes not staged for commit: (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed) (use "git restore <file>..." to discard changes in working directory) modified: Makefile Untracked files not listed (use -u option to show untracked files) ... And tell "add -p" to add the first but not the second hunk. $ git commit -m test ... And commit. $ git status -uno On branch test Changes not staged for commit: (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed) (use "git restore <file>..." to discard changes in working directory) modified: Makefile no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a") ... Then the working tree file stays dirty because the second hunk was not added. $ git diff diff --git i/Makefile w/Makefile index fe6d649c27..6bf8f3147b 100644 --- i/Makefile +++ w/Makefile @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ all:: # Define USE_LIBPCRE if you have and want to use libpcre. Various # commands such as log and grep offer runtime options to use # Perl-compatible regular expressions instead of standard or extended -# POSIX regular expressions. +# POSIX regular expressions... # # Only libpcre version 2 is supported. USE_LIBPCRE2 is a synonym for # USE_LIBPCRE, support for the old USE_LIBPCRE1 has been removed. ... just as we can see here. Of course, the first hunk is in the commit, as can be seen ehre $ git diff HEAD^ HEAD diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 9573190f1d..fe6d649c27 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# The default target of this Makefile is... +# The default target of this Makefile is..... all:: # Define V=1 to have a more verbose compile.
