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From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Please default to 'commit -a' when no changes were added
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On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 16:40, Matthieu Moy
<Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
> There's another case where it would be hard to decide what's "The
> Right Thing":
>
> vi existing-file.c # do some changes
> vi new-file.c =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0# create the file
> git add new-file.c
> git commit
>
> If you take the SVN semantics

The original feature request is pretty specific and still backwards
compatible with this case; indeed, the feature request is almost
99.9999% backwards compatible from what I've skimmed.