Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> (It looks like `git commit -a` does not work with pathspec. > > You should be able to do something like > > $ git commit . ':(exclude)t/' > > I think. Correction. You would need the "-i(nclude)" option if you do the above, as the default is "-o(nly)", which will deliberately ignore what has been added to the index.