Re: Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 21:34, Michael Witten [off-list ref] wrote:

The proposal was not "default to commit -a" but rather "default to
commit -a when the index has not been explicitly updated with
something like git add".

For what it's worth, from another relative newcomer: The above would
actually cause trouble sometimes for me. Having learned to use git
add+git commit, and working on several things at once:

edit file1
edit file2
edit file3
git add file3
git commit -m"fixed file3"

In the above sequence (relative newcomer, but not entirely) I
occasionally forget to do the 'git add file3' part (I just mistakenly
thought I did). The way it works now means nothing happens, which is
good. The way I understand the proposal I would instead end up with a
commit of all my changed files, which is exactly not what I want.
I can't stop thinking that it should be easy for anyone who wants the
proposed behaviour to make an alias, or certainly a wrapper. Problem
solved, without changing the way it works now.

-Tor