Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> 'git commit .' in one of them attempted to commit all of them, not >> only the files in that subdirectory. >> >> This is a very unreasonable behavior, because while being in any >> subdirectory 'git commit .' should only affect that subdirectory, and >> not files elsewhere. > > That isn't right, though I can't reproduce what you describe from your > report. Try this script out: > ... "git commit --include ." would exhibit the behaviour, but that should not be the default, so I am also puzzled.