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Subject: Re: git commit error on initial (the very first) commit
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 13:08:58 -0800
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"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:

> On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 08:26:54PM +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
>> May be I do something wrong? What is correct procedure to initially import 
>> tree? git 1.1.4
>> 
>> {pts/0}% git init-db
>> defaulting to local storage area
>> {pts/0}% git add .
>> {pts/0}% git commit -m 'initial import'
>
> It needs to know which paths to update.

While I agree with you that individual developers should always
say "commit -a" after testing their changes, I do not think that
has much to do with Andrey's problem.

In a freshly created repository, "git add ." would register
everything to the index file, and a "git commit" with or without
"-a" that immediately follows "git add ." would commit what is
in the index.  Use of "-a" would not make a difference here.