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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>
To: Carl Worth <cworth@...>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@...>, Andreas Ericsson <ae@...>, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@...>, Junio C Hamano <junkio@...>, Nicolas Pitre <nico@...>, <git@...>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a".
Date: Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 2:33 pm

On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Carl Worth wrote:

If so, you should make it a special case.

I refuse to believe in the "people who know what the hell they are doing 
should work more at it" philosophy.

The "git commit -a" behaviour as it is now is better than the 
alternatives, exactly because it's more flexible. It _allows_ you to not 
commit anything at all (and as already mentioned, there are cases where 
that is exactly what you want).

If you want to have a "-a by default", then that you require _you_ to do 
more work, and no, it's NOT an excuse to say "I'm a clueless newbie, and I 
don't know how to set a config option, so I think it's the smart and 
beautiful people who should suffer for my shortcomings".

You can even do it by doing an alias like

	[alias]
		ci = commit -a

and then you can revel in your CVS-induced mudpit all you want.  Just 
don't try to convince people who have gotten over that braindamage to live 
in the same muck with you.

Problem solved. For all I care, we can make that alias a default one, so 
people who just can't get their mind out of the gutter that is CVS can 
continue with their evil ways.

			Linus
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Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a"., Junio C Hamano, (Wed Nov 29, 9:03 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a"., Junio C Hamano, (Wed Nov 29, 9:22 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a"., Johannes Schindelin, (Wed Nov 29, 10:11 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a"., Linus Torvalds, (Wed Nov 29, 11:10 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a"., Andreas Ericsson, (Thu Nov 30, 7:09 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a"., Linus Torvalds, (Thu Nov 30, 11:58 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a"., Theodore Tso, (Thu Nov 30, 12:40 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a"., Linus Torvalds, (Thu Nov 30, 1:13 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a"., Carl Worth, (Thu Nov 30, 2:09 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a"., Linus Torvalds, (Thu Nov 30, 2:33 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a"., Nicolas Pitre, (Thu Nov 30, 1:37 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a"., Carl Worth, (Thu Nov 30, 2:38 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a"., Carl Worth, (Thu Nov 30, 2:51 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a"., Robert Shearman, (Thu Nov 30, 5:33 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a"., Linus Torvalds, (Thu Nov 30, 3:55 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a"., Nicolas Pitre, (Thu Nov 30, 4:47 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a"., Junio C Hamano, (Thu Nov 30, 5:19 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a"., Nicolas Pitre, (Thu Nov 30, 6:21 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a"., Andreas Ericsson, (Fri Dec 1, 4:59 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a"., Alan Chandler, (Fri Dec 1, 7:36 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a"., Junio C Hamano, (Thu Nov 30, 7:02 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a"., Nicolas Pitre, (Thu Nov 30, 9:20 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a"., Linus Torvalds, (Thu Nov 30, 7:40 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a"., Junio C Hamano, (Thu Nov 30, 8:24 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a"., Carl Worth, (Thu Nov 30, 8:13 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a"., Linus Torvalds, (Thu Nov 30, 8:21 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a"., Carl Worth, (Thu Nov 30, 9:10 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a"., Linus Torvalds, (Thu Nov 30, 9:32 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a"., Carl Worth, (Thu Nov 30, 10:08 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a"., Linus Torvalds, (Thu Nov 30, 10:44 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a"., Michael K. Edwards, (Thu Nov 30, 11:52 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a"., Carl Worth, (Thu Nov 30, 11:40 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a"., Linus Torvalds, (Thu Nov 30, 5:03 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a"., Andy Parkins, (Fri Dec 1, 4:34 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a"., Alan Chandler, (Fri Dec 1, 7:33 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a"., Johannes Schindelin, (Thu Nov 30, 6:27 am)
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a"., Steven Grimm, (Wed Nov 29, 9:58 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a"., Junio C Hamano, (Wed Nov 29, 10:12 pm)
Re: [PATCH 0/2] Making "git commit" to mean "git commit -a"., Sam Vilain, (Wed Nov 29, 10:04 pm)