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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Cc: "Jon Forrest" <nobozo@gmail.com>,  git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "git commit -a" Doesn't Add New Files. Why?
Date: Wed, 28 May 2025 16:34:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq8qmgpaxh.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <09518eac-948e-46be-9cd2-64304e78af81@app.fastmail.com> (Kristoffer Haugsbakk's message of "Tue, 27 May 2025 18:43:10 +0200")

"Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com> writes:

> I have also not seen anyone really recommend using this option.

You mean "git commit -a"?

I actually do to anybody who is the kind of person who concentrates
on a single thing and completes that single thing well before moving
to another task.  It is a perfect tool for the job for such a way of
working.

Like when doing "git merge" or "git pull".  There, the "single
thing" that the person concentrates on is to complete the merge, and
with a reasonably written pre-commit hook to make sure there is no
leftover conflict markers [*], "git commit -a" to conclude a
conflicted merge is fairly safe.


[Footnote]

 * There should actually be pre-add hook to make it even less
   annoying.  After you see conflicts, "git add -u" happily adds the
   contents of the files in the working tree, with conflict markers
   still in them.  You can rely on the pre-commit hook that is
   triggered when you run "git commit" next time, and then use "git
   checkout -m" to recreate the conflicted higher-stage index
   entries for these paths, but if we had pre-add hook, we shouldn't
   have to know how to recover from such a mistake in the first
   place.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2025-05-28 23:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-05-27 16:03 "git commit -a" Doesn't Add New Files. Why? Jon Forrest
2025-05-27 16:31 ` Nico Williams
2025-05-28 22:24   ` Junio C Hamano
2025-05-28 23:06     ` Jon Forrest
2025-05-27 16:43 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2025-05-28 21:16   ` Junio C Hamano
2025-05-28 23:34   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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