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From:   Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To:     Joanna Wang <jojwang@chromium.org>
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Subject: Re: Supporting `git add -a <exclude submodules>`
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

>> (It looks like `git commit -a` does not work with pathspec.
>
> You should be able to do something like 
>
>     $ git commit . ':(exclude)t/'
>
> I think.

Correction.  You would need the "-i(nclude)" option if you do the
above, as the default is "-o(nly)", which will deliberately ignore
what has been added to the index.