Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo: State of the Union

[Ryan Phillips]

"Fernando J. Pereda" <ferdy@g.o> said:
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 02:49:18PM -0700, Ryan Phillips wrote:
> > the only option I saw was git-commit -o and you had to specify the
> > files that you wanted to commit.
> >
> > I tried doing a git-commit paths/ and still everything wants to be
> > committed.
> >
> > It isn't pretty.
> >
>
> Uh, no... thats certainly not true for git-1.3 series, and I belive the
> behavior has been consistent since early february this year when the new
> commit semantics where introduced.
>
> See this:
>
> --- 8< ---
> [ $ ~/testy/gitty ] git init-db
> defaulting to local storage area
> [ $ ~/testy/gitty(master) ] echo something > a
> [ $ ~/testy/gitty(master) ] mkdir dir
> [ $ ~/testy/gitty(master) ] echo other thing > dir/b
> [ $ ~/testy/gitty(master) ] git add .
> [ $ ~/testy/gitty(master) ] git commit -m "initial import"
> Committing initial tree 6dc01ab7eb7f19983ae76e72ccb63e3e60aa2dc3
> [ $ ~/testy/gitty(master) ] git status
> nothing to commit
> [ $ ~/testy/gitty(master) ] echo add something here >> dir/b
> [ $ ~/testy/gitty(master) ] echo something there >> a
> [ $ ~/testy/gitty(master) ] git status
> #
> # Changed but not updated:
> #   (use git-update-index to mark for commit)
> #
> #	modified: a
> #	modified: dir/b
> #
> nothing to commit
> [ $ ~/testy/gitty(master) ] git commit -m "Only things in dir/?" dir/
> [ $ ~/testy/gitty(master) ] git status
> #
> # Changed but not updated:
> #   (use git-update-index to mark for commit)
> #
> #	modified: a
> #
> nothing to commit
> [ $ ~/testy/gitty(master) ]
> --- 8< ---
>
> It is the same even if you did 'git update-index a' before 'git commit
> -m ... dir/'. However that's something you won't do unless you know what
> you're doing :)
>

I'm testing with 1.3.1.  You are correct.  The text the is printed by
git is a bit confusing.  If the portage tree can scale to it, then I'm
for it.

Thanks for the clarification.

-ryan