Re: [PATCH] make 'git add' a first class user friendly interface to the index

[Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>]

On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Alan Chandler wrote:

> On Friday 01 December 2006 22:31, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:
> ...
> >
> > > +Contrary to other SCMs, with GIT you have to explicitly "add" all the
> > > +changed file content you want to commit together to form a changeset
> > > +with the 'add' command before using the 'commit' command.
> >
> > ... "before a new commit is made"; it is not an offence to leave
> > local changes outside the index.  Staging such changes to all
> > files is done using the "-a" flag and that is done "before a new
> > commit is made", but not "before using the 'commit' command" --
> > it is done at the same time.

Bleamphfff...  Nah.  There is certainly another way to formulate that.

> How about
> 
> Contrary to other SCM's, with GIT you have to explicitly "add" the content 
> that you want to commit before it is made; it is not an offence to leave 

Before what is made?

> changes outside the index if you want to leave them to a later commit.  
> However if you do want all changes from your working tree to be added to the 
> commit before it is made use the "-a" flag with the commit command and the 
> content will be added just before the commit is made.

Nah.  Too many concepts in the same paragraph.