On Sat, 24 Apr 2010, Jacob Helwig wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 11:54, Petr Baudis <pa...@suse.cz> wrote:
> > Are there valid user scenarios where you customize your index, then want
> > to override that using -a without thinking twice?
> >
> 
> Depends on what you consider "customizing your index".  I add files to
> the index all the time as I'm working on things, then commit -a at the
> end "without thinking twice".
> 
> For example:
> 1) Hack on something.
> 2) git add $thing
> 3) Run full test-suite.
> 4) Fix a failing module.
> 5) git add $fixed-module-and-tests
> 6) Repeat 3-5 until there's only one module failing.
> 7) Fix last failing module.
> 8) git commit -a
> 
> I doubt I'm the only one that stages things as a way of marking them
> as "done", and using git commit -a to "check-off" the last "todo"
> item.

Sure.  But do you happen to often "commit -a" more changes to an already 
previously modified and staged (but not committed yet) file?


Nicolas



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