Marcin Mikłas <m.miklas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > when I execute > git commit file.txt > (by listing file as argumentbut without the -a switch) for a file > file.txt that I have made changes without staged them in the index, > the changes are still commited. > Is there a way to make this work like command > git commit > without committing the changes that are not staged in the index? I do not think there is. The "git commit --only [<pathspec>...]" mode (which is the default) was introduced as a variant whose blast radius is much smaller than the "git commit --include [<pathspec>...]" mode (which was the only mode before "--only" was introduced), but what you seem to be after is a mode that is even finer-grained one. I do not offhand see a reason why such a mode should not exist. It would be called the "git commit --cached [<pathspec>...]" mode (that would be listed next to the existing "--only" and "--include" modes in the documentation), by taking inspiration from the name of another command "git diff --cached [<pathspec>...]" (i.e., use only the contents already added to the index), if we were to add one.
