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

[Fernando J. Pereda]

Ryan:

I think you are talking about very old versions of Git:

On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 02:20:43PM -0700, Ryan Phillips wrote:
> What I meant is, if you have a change within one directory pending
> a commit, and you have a commit pending in a current directory, both
> files will be picked up for the commit.  I think that is bad. That
> means you can't have pending changes not ready for commit and commit
> something.

Of course you can have pending commits. You can even have uncommited
changes in your index since git-commit uses a temporary index when doing
this kind of checkins.

> yes. git-commit will allow the commit, it will walk the directories
> backwards, but it will find all the pending changes and want to commit
> them.

It will if you don't use git-commit correctly :)

> I don't think that is beneficial.  I'm open to comments though.

'git commit' semantics are a bit different from 'cvs commit' and 'svn
commit' semantics. That's probably the reason you faced that problem :)

Cheers,
ferdy

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Fernando J. Pereda Garcimartín
Gentoo Developer (Alpha,net-mail,mutt,git)
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