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Subject: Re: Question about "git commit -a"
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David Soria, Fri, Oct 05, 2007 00:34:11 +0200:
> Am Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:38:25 +0200 schrieb Paolo Ciarrocchi:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > I was just wondering why git commit doesn't default to "-a" (yes, it's
> > another question that came up during a chat with a mercurial user) and
> > I didn't find an answer to that.
> 
> 
> in fact i do just a git-config alias.commit 'commit -a' in my repository
> 

Either you have a specially modified git (the alias expansion code) or
you just said not exactly truth. You can't alias the git commands (see
git.c's main).