From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: Marc Weber <marco-oweber@gmx.de>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: I suggest that git commit support -A option, just like hg does.thanks.
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2011 21:56:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vfwlc1ox1.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buoy5z4ed3w.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Mon, 08 Aug 2011 13:33:39 +0900")
Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:
> Remember: "just add an alias!" is an acceptable answer only if the
> desired feature is odd/unusual. For desired features that are likely
> to be generally useful, git should do the right thing, out of the box,
> for everybody.
The reason I deliberately chose to use capital letter in "add -A" even
when we do not have "add -a" was exactly so that interested parties can do
"commit -A" to match it (and "commit -a" is doing the _right_ thing out of
the box, and its behaviour will not change). Hopefully you can take it as
a strong hint that I personally do not think "commit -A" is without merit.
So far, nobody stepped up to do it, though. I have been taking it as a
sign that "commit -A" is not one of the commonly desired features but is
probably closer to your "odd/unusual". It's up to the user/developer
community to change that ;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-08 4:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-06 14:32 I suggest that git commit support -A option, just like hg does.thanks jelly
2011-08-06 15:02 ` Magnus Bäck
2011-08-06 16:17 ` jelly
2011-08-06 19:35 ` Marc Weber
2011-08-08 4:33 ` Miles Bader
2011-08-08 4:56 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2011-08-08 14:04 ` Michael Witten
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