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Development Tools Git Basics Getting Started With Git Committing Changes

Jared Bothwell
Jared Bothwell
7,031 Points
Posted by Jared Bothwell
Jared Bothwell
7,031 Points

-a does not work in terminal on mac

I tried to use -a but terminal returns fatal: Paths with -a does not make sense. How do you commit all changes via mac?

1 Answer

Mark Bridgeman
Mark Bridgeman
4,988 Points

Have you done 'git add' first?

What I use for git is usually something along the lines of:

git add .
git commit -m 'your commit message'
git push origin master