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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: Documentation/git-commit.txt
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:45:41 -0500 (EST)
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On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> By the way, I have been wondering if the --only variant of the
> command should also add untracked files to the index.  That is:
> 
> 	$ git commit foo.c '*.h'
> 
> currently barfs if foo.c is not tracked, and/or there is no
> tracked header files.  We could instead run git-update-index
> --add on them.

That would be a good thing indeed.

> Incidentally, this would make this sequence possible:
> 
> 	$ tar xf /var/tmp/foo.tar ;# extract tarball here.
>         $ git init-db
>         $ git commit -m 'initial import' .

... making the UI even more consistent.