Re: Git commit won't add an untracked file given on the command line

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Mark Burton <markb@ordern.com> writes:

>> 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.

Heh, I apparently failed to convey what I wanted to say with "without any
explicit user customization" part of my message.  IOW, I think you are
saying the same thing as what I wanted to say from the opposite angle.