On 17/08/18 20:35, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Aug 2018 12:22:09 +0200
> John Crisp <jcrisp@???> wrote:
>
>> git commit -a -m "My new funky feature I dreamt up whilst on the beer
>> last night"
>>
>> This will add all 'untracked' files and commit them.
>
> In my world, I'd never want to track all files in my development tree.
> Most are temporary shellscripts, code snippets to determine exact
> behavior, pseudo-data, etc. These are in no way necessary or adviseable
> for the end user to possess.
>

Yup - I agree.

That's why you have .gitignore, and personally I would rarely use -a

Was just trying to illustrate usage, and hence I added 'individual files'

:-)