Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] writes:
But dense as I am, I still can’t imagine why
echo '[alias] ci = commit -a' >>$HOME/.gitconfig
wouldn’t be better in every way (especially if Jakub’s
commit.preserveindex is enabled).
If the latter is enabled, you can't use "git add" to add new files,
you'll have to remember to use "add -N" (or add some alias for that
too).
-Miles
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Miles Bader wrote:
Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] writes:
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But dense as I am, I still can’t imagine why
echo '[alias] ci = commit -a' >>$HOME/.gitconfig
wouldn’t be better in every way (especially if Jakub’s
commit.preserveindex is enabled).
If the latter is enabled, you can't use "git add" to add new files,
you'll have to remember to use "add -N" (or add some alias for that
too).
Didn’t he first [1] propose a variant in which using ‘git add -N’ was
not necessary? The rule was something like this: consider each entry.
If it
- matches HEAD, or
- matches the work tree, or
- is an intent-to-add
then we say it is easily recoverable. If all index entries are
easily recoverable, then let the commit -a go through.
Jonathan
[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.bugs.general/698001/focus=145662