Noob question

[Maarten De Munck]

Jean-Christophe,

Lets not discuss git's and apple's design choices here, but if you just
want to add all modified files, you can just "vcsh <repo> commit -a" to
automatically add all modified files prior to commit.

Best regards,

Maarten



Op 07-03-15 om 17:00 schreef Jean-Christophe Boggio:
> Maarten,
>
> Thanks for your fast reply.
>
> Le 07/03/2015 16:28, Maarten De Munck a écrit :
>> In your first session, the 'vcsh commit' will in fact commit all
>> changes staged for commit in all repositories. In most real cases, I
>> think you want different commit messages for different repositories,
>> each reflecting your changes in that particular repository. The vcsh
>> manpage or vcsh --help show no additional command line parameters and
>> it just ignores any parameters it doesn't need.
>
> You are right.
>
>> Your change after the first commit (both in your first and second
>> session) will not be committed until you explicitly add it. This
>> requires two actions (add and commit), but in practice, you can make
>> a lot of changes and split them in several commits, which is useful,
>> for example, to store different bugfixes in different commits, so
>> that they can be selectively applied to other branches. You can even
>> add some changes in a file to a first commit and other changes in the
>> same file to a second commit. This is absolutely standard git
>> behaviour. If you want to add and commit in one command, specify
>> which files you want to commit (e.g. vcsh repo commit file1 file2 -m
>> "comment").
>
> Ok, I understand the behaviour which can be useful in some complex
> scenarii but I was looking at vcsh for simple dotfile synchronization
> and the way I see it now, I will have to re-add all modified files on
> every commit.
>
>> Git's behaviour requires some extra commands sometimes which can
>> look useless for simple test scenarios, but when I started using git
>> for larger and more complex projects, each of these strange
>> situations proved to be very useful in quite some situations.
>
> This is not a test scenario, it is the purpose of vcsh (as I
> understand it) : manage a few dotfiles in a repository. Clone/pull,
> modify, commit and push.
>
> I daily use mercurial and hopefully I don't have to re-add every single
> modified file on every commit. I was expecting the same simple behaviour
> from git but it seems you have to manage simple things as if they were
> complex so that when you do face complex situations you are already
> prepared.
>
> This is the exact opposite way I want to think computing. This is what
> makes Apple win, this is the reason why people are forced to look at
> computers as if they were magic, why they think computers as "too
> complicated for them".
>
> I am really disappointed by git. It is probably an excellent tool for
> super-smart people which I am not so I'll keep with dumb tools.
> Mercurial and symlinks.
>
> Many (sincere) thanks for your enlightenments.
>
> JC
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