Re: [PATCH/RFC] Make git-commit cleverer - have it figure out whether it needs -a automatically

Andy Parkins wrote:

Raimund Bauer offered this suggestion (paraphrased):

"Maybe we could do git-commit -a  _only_ if the index matches HEAD, and
otherwise keep current behavior?  So people who don't care about the
index won't get tripped up, and when you do have a dirty index, you get
told about it?"

Johannes Schindelin pointed out that this isn't the right thing to do for
an --amend, so that is checked for.

Additionally, it's probably not the right thing to do if any files are
specified with "--only" or "--include", so they turn this behaviour off
as well.

Could we add suggestion by Andreas Ericsson to print in the "smart commit"
case:

  Nothing to commit but changes in working tree. Assuming 'git commit -a'

or something like that?
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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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