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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Question about "git commit -a"
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 00:19:38 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, David Soria wrote:

> Am Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:38:25 +0200 schrieb Paolo Ciarrocchi:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > I was just wondering why git commit doesn't default to "-a" (yes, it's
> > another question that came up during a chat with a mercurial user) and
> > I didn't find an answer to that.
> 
> 
> in fact i do just a git-config alias.commit 'commit -a' in my repository

Which will not work, because we do not allow overriding of 
programs/builtins by aliases.

This has technical reasons and cannot be fixed.

Ciao,
Dscho