Re: Question about "git commit -a"

["Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>]

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
> 
> > On 10/4/07, Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com> wrote:
> > > > Am I wrong?
> > >
> > > About it being a majority, yes, I suspect so.
> > >
> > 
> > Maybe in the next survey we should include question "do you usually do 
> > 'git commit' or 'git commit -a'" :-)
> 
> Not meaning to discourage you, but it is a known fact that Linus does "git 
> commit" without "-a" quite often.
> 
> And if that were not bad enough for your plan, I myself omit "-a" 
> regularly.  So you would get a veto from me, too.

Ditto.  I use `git commit` more often than `git commit -a`.

Actually scratch that, I use `git gui` more often than I use `git
commit -a` but the point holds.  I stage things long before I ever
think about what the commit message should say.  Its very rare that
I am committing without staging something first, usually its a one
liner fix for something and the -a just is the shorter way to stage
the change.

Early on in my Git days I didn't grasp how *useful* it is to stage
first.  Now I can't work without it.  At least for any change more
than 1 line.  :)

-- 
Shawn.