feature suggestion: git commit -a -o ...

feature suggestion: git commit -a -o ...

[David Reitter]

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I'm wondering why "git commit -a -o *" is not supported.
With this command I'd like to commit the intersection of all changed,  
tracked files and those in the current directory.

I found that "git commit ." does what I want and it even detects  
deleted files (excellent, thank you).





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Re: feature suggestion: git commit -a -o ...

[Jeff King]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 04:39:32PM -0400, David Reitter wrote:

> I'm wondering why "git commit -a -o *" is not supported.
> With this command I'd like to commit the intersection of all changed,
> tracked files and those in the current directory.
> 
> I found that "git commit ." does what I want and it even detects
> deleted files (excellent, thank you).

I don't understand what "-a" is supposed to be doing there. It means
"all tracked files in the whole repo".  But from your "git commit ."
example, it sounds like you just want "git commit -o *" (in fact, "git
commit ." is more or less equivalent (with the except of dot-files) to
"git commit *", which is in turn the same as "git commit -o *").

Can you be more clear about the set of files you have, the set you want
to commit, and how "git commit" differs from your expectations?

-Peff