On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 11:56:03AM -0400, Kristian Høgsberg wrote: > I understand why people like staging and commit without -a, seeing how > it's faster and all, but I have a serious problem with this practice > that I haven't seen brought up on the list. How do you know what you > commit actually works or even compiles? You don't. Even with 'commit -a' there is no guarantee that the result will compile, because you can forget to add a new file. IMHO, the best practice is to recompile everything step-wise in a clean directory before you are going to publish your changes. It can be done automatically by script, while you do something useful, like reading this mailing-list :) Dmitry - 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
