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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Cc: "Jakub Narębski" <jnareb@gmail.com>,
	"Christian Neukirchen" <chneukirchen@gmail.com>,
	"Git mailing list" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git commit -p with file arguments
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 18:57:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqa8fd6fs7.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+P7+xqdWbERVQenZJTLyirBy2VFrKV2-uBOxB1CwcWs+gy43A@mail.gmail.com> (Jacob Keller's message of "Sun, 11 Sep 2016 15:05:09 -0700")

Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> writes:

> Yes, I'm actually confused by "git commit <files>" *not* usinng what's
> in the index already, so I think that isn't intuitive as is.

You are excused ;-)

In ancient days, "git commit <pathspec>" was to add the contents
from working tree files that match <pathspec> to what is already in
the index and create a commit from that state.  This ran against the
intuition of many users who knew older systems (e.g. cvs) and we had
to migrate it to the current behaviour by breaking backward
compatibility.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-12  1:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-05 21:08 git commit -p with file arguments Christian Neukirchen
2016-09-09 10:54 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-10-05 10:26   ` Duy Nguyen
2016-10-05 11:38     ` Christian Neukirchen
2016-10-05 17:16     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-09 16:57 ` Jacob Keller
2016-09-09 17:05   ` Christian Neukirchen
2016-09-09 18:03   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-09 20:39     ` Jakub Narębski
2016-09-09 20:52       ` Christian Neukirchen
2016-09-10  9:52         ` Jakub Narębski
2016-09-11 21:50           ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-11 22:05             ` Jacob Keller
2016-09-12  1:57               ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-09-12  4:56                 ` Jacob Keller
2016-09-12 21:14                 ` Jakub Narębski

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