Re: git commit -p with file arguments

[Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 2:08 PM, Christian Neukirchen
<chneukirchen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed the following suprising behavior:
>
> % git --version
> git version 2.10.0
>
> % git add bar
> % git status -s
> A  bar
>  M foo
>
> % git commit -p foo
> [stage a hunk]
> ...
> # Explicit paths specified without -i or -o; assuming --only paths...
> # On branch master
> # Changes to be committed:
> #       new file:   bar
> #       modified:   foo
> #
>
> So why does it want to commit bar too, when I explicitly wanted to
> commit foo only?

It wants to commit bar too because you already added bar before. It works like:

"git add bar && git add -p foo && git commit" does it not?

I fail to see why "git commit -p <path>" would unstage the bar you
already added? Or am I missing some assumption here?

Thanks,
Jake

>
> This is not how "git commit files..." works, and the man page says
>
>             3.by listing files as arguments to the commit command, in which
>            case the commit will ignore changes staged in the index, and
>            instead record the current content of the listed files (which must
>            already be known to Git);
>
> I'd expect "git commit -p files..." to work like
> "git add -p files... && git commit files...".
>

I guess the part about "git commit files" is different from "git
commit -p files", which is confusing.

> Thanks,
> --
> Christian Neukirchen  <chneukirchen@gmail.com>  http://chneukirchen.org
>