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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a".
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:31:05 -0500 (EST)
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To: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
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On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Carl Worth wrote:

> It might even make sense to invent one more name for the case where
> the user wants to inform git that a file has been edited and that git
> should accept the new contents. It's the sort of "note that file is
> edited" operation that could be recommended to the user with "add; fix
> typo; commit" confusion.
> 
> Sure, "add" could be used again, and "update-index" clearly _works_
> but it's a rather ugly name, (and already has "plumbing" functionality
> like --add and --remove that we don't want here).

I disagree.  "add" is beautiful. It is short, easy to remember, and 
transcend pretty much what the index is all about.  And just because 
"add" and "edited" can be made into the same command is a pretty damn 
good reason not to create a separate command.

   You "add" changes to the changeset then you commit that changeset.

No need to care whether or not this is a new file, an edited file, etc.