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Timothy Boland
Timothy Boland
18,237 Points
Posted by Timothy Boland
Timothy Boland
18,237 Points

Git Basics - Staging Our Changes - Code Challenge 5 of 6 - Now let's commit all the changes we made to the staging area.

ive tried entering each of the following but all our failing:

git commit -a git commit -a -m "Committing All Remaining Changes"

but it tells me Bummer! That was the wrong git command. Try again.

Is it a bug in the question, or am i doing it wrong

2 Answers

Jonathan Hackworth
Jonathan Hackworth
6,169 Points
Jonathan Hackworth
Jonathan Hackworth
6,169 Points

Since you have already added the changes you want to commit to the staging area, there is no need to commit all changes.

So you'll want to remove the -a flag, to ensure that just the changes in the staging area are committed.

git commit -m "xxx"

Jim Withington
Jim Withington
12,025 Points

Thanks! I was confused here, too.

MUZ141016 Lovemore Musekiwa
MUZ141016 Lovemore Musekiwa
3,390 Points
MUZ141016 Lovemore Musekiwa
MUZ141016 Lovemore Musekiwa
3,390 Points

git commit -m "message"