Re: Git malfunctions on the ports tree

From: Moin Rahman <bofh_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2022 19:01:25 UTC

> On Nov 7, 2022, at 7:57 PM, Yuri <yuri@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
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> This happened several times to me. I had to revert commits. Now this happened again.
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> When several ports have changes in the tree and one of the ports is committed with 'cd <categ>/<name> && git commit .' - other ports sometimes also get into the commit.
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> In the message git shows correct files under 'Changes to be committed:' and 'Changes not staged for commit:'.
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> But the commit actually contains files "not staged for commit".
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> I wonder if anyone else experienced this problem.
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> Yuri
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I can recollect having something like this a couple of months ago but then I started using git add . before git commit. And the problem went away.