Like commit -a, but...

[Andreas Krey <a.krey@gmx.de>]

Hi all,

I have a workflow for which I can't quite find the git tooling.

Essentially what I want is like 'git commit -a', except that I
want the resulting commit on a branch I name instead of the current
one, and I want my current index not being modified. At the moment
I emulate that via

  git commit -a -m TEMP": `date` $*" && \
  git push -f nsd master:temp && \
  git reset HEAD^ && \

but that a) changes the index (ok, not that bad), and it
will change my current commit in the case that there are
no unmodified files (no commit -> head doesn't point
where I want). Ok, that can be prevented by --allow-empty.

But still I'd like to know if there is a cleaner solution,
esp. with respect to the index.

(Ah, the point of all this is to take the exact current worktree and
push it to a compile&deploy server; I don't want to chop my work into
commits before I even could compile it.)

Andreas



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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800