"git commit -a" will skip staging entirely if that's what you'd like to do. Should "-a" have been the default? Maybe, but that doesn't mean that you can't use it.
Now, if you want to exclude certain files from a commit I will freely admit this is a pain. The easiest way, especially if you have loads of untracked files you don't want to commit, is to do:
Which is pretty awful, I will admit. I had an alias to do this a while ago (without the need to amend the commit) but it wasn't great fun.
However staging is still a useful concept, and "gl commit" as far as I can tell doesn't really allow me to do something I do quite often ("git add -p" to add partial hunks of a change to staging for a commit). I recognise that I'm probably in the vast minority (outside of the kernel community) when it comes to my Git usage, but staging is definitely quite important for some Git usecases.
Now, if you want to exclude certain files from a commit I will freely admit this is a pain. The easiest way, especially if you have loads of untracked files you don't want to commit, is to do:
Which is pretty awful, I will admit. I had an alias to do this a while ago (without the need to amend the commit) but it wasn't great fun.However staging is still a useful concept, and "gl commit" as far as I can tell doesn't really allow me to do something I do quite often ("git add -p" to add partial hunks of a change to staging for a commit). I recognise that I'm probably in the vast minority (outside of the kernel community) when it comes to my Git usage, but staging is definitely quite important for some Git usecases.