On FreeBSD 5.5 if you use git commit -a you get this error: [root@robert /usr/local/test (testing)]# git commit -a error: pathspec '-a' did not match any file(s) known to git. Did you forget to 'git add'? If I add the file and commit it works as expected. Robert - 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