Today I learned that you can add -a to a commit command to automatically stage files that have been modified and deleted.
Why write two lines:
git add .
git commit -m "msg"
When you can write one:
git commit -m "msg" -a
NB: new files you have not told Git about are not affected.
Top comments (5)
Or even shorter,
git commit -am "msg";)Nice! Thank you, that is one hyphen and one space I am happy to get rid of :D
Although its a nice command, I prefer using
git add -pfirst, so I can review each modification and decide whether to stage it or not.I'ts one step more for sure, but saved me of commiting unecessary changes
Lovely! I didn't know about the
-pflag. Definitely going to use this one from time to time. Thank you.Good point! 🌟