Matthieu Moy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Michael Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> How about letting C-u C-c C-c from the log-edit buffer mean "Don't >> commit everything -- just the files that the user has added >> themself." > > Something like this should be done, yes. > > C-u C-c C-c is an option. I was thinking of a global variable to say > "I'm going to use -a/I'm not going to use -a" otherwise. That would > change the behavior of commit, but potentially also the one of status > (status -a Vs status) and diff (diff HEAD Vs diff --cached and diff). > > I'd call that xgit-use-index, and if set to nil, xgit would be similar > to other back-ends (diff runs "diff HEAD", status runs "status > -a", ... the user doesn't even have to know that the index exists), > and if set to t, xgit would behave as if the "-a" option didn't exist. > > The drawback of this approach is that it's easy to forget the value of > the configuration variable, and run commit thinking xgit is in a mode > while it's actually in the other. So, with this approach, we need to > find a way to allow changing the value of xgit-use-index easily, and a > way to remind the user of the value of the variable.
I'll give that a try tonight. -- Matthieu _______________________________________________ Dvc-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/dvc-dev
