Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a".

Jakub Narebski wrote:

If "git commit -a" by default heresy ;-) was accepted, I'd rather it be via
configuration option.
  

So the newbie-friendly behavior should require learning how to edit a 
configuration file, and the expert-friendly behavior should be the one 
you get on your first out-of-the-box exposure to git?