Re: Question about "git commit -a"

[Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 11:56:03AM -0400, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> I understand why people like staging and commit without -a, seeing how
> it's faster and all, but I have a serious problem with this practice
> that I haven't seen brought up on the list.  How do you know what you
> commit actually works or even compiles?

You don't. Even with 'commit -a' there is no guarantee that the
result will compile, because you can forget to add a new file.
IMHO, the best practice is to recompile everything step-wise in 
a clean directory before you are going to publish your changes.
It can be done automatically by script, while you do something
useful, like reading this mailing-list :)

Dmitry