On 10/5/07, Andreas Ericsson <ae@xxxxxx> wrote: [...] > As for the "git commit should default to -a" discussion, I think it's pretty > clear where I stand ;-) Fair enough. Another try to have an easy explanation of how the staging area works: paolo@paolo-desktop:~/HowIndexWorks$ ls A B C D E F G Now I edit A,B,C,D and E: $ echo A >> A $ echo B >> B $ echo C >> C $ echo D >> D $ echo E >> E I now realize want to only commit the changes I did to A,B,C,D. First step is to place A,B,C and D into the staging area: $ git add A B C D Now I can commit: $ git commitpaolo@paolo-desktop:~/HowIndexWorks$ git commit Created commit 16032dc: I modified A,B,C and D 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) It's now time to work on F and G: $ echo F >> F $ echo G >> G Current status is: paolo@paolo-desktop:~/HowIndexWorks$ git status # On branch master # Changed but not updated: # (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed) # # modified: E # modified: F # modified: G Instead of adding E,F and G to the staging are and then commit them in two steps I can using a single command: $ git commit E F G (in this case it's equivalent to git commit -a) paolo@paolo-desktop:~/HowIndexWorks$ git commit E F G Created commit 69ec8be: I modified E, F and G 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) status now is: paolo@paolo-desktop:~/HowIndexWorks$ git status # On branch master nothing to commit (working directory clean) Regards, -- Paolo http://paolo.ciarrocchi.googlepages.com/ - 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
