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From: Mark Burton <markb@ordern.com>
Subject: Re: Git commit won't add an untracked file given on the command
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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:30:27 +0000
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Hi,

> Allowing what Mark wants without any explicit user customization will be a
> disaster to the end user experience.

If the ability to commit a currently untracked file/tree whilst
preserving the index is really worth having (and that's debatable, as
the git user community has survived until now without that capability)
then another option (say, -O) could be added to git-commit that does
what -o does but allows untracked files/trees to be specified - that
way, the current behaviour would remain unchanged and the above
mentioned disaster averted.

Cheers,

Mark