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

Miles Bader wrote:

Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

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