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Michael Steinman
11,012 PointsWhy not add the medals directory?
Why would we add every file in the medals directory, when we could just add the entire directory?
1 Answer
Alex Koumparos
Python Development Techdegree Student 36,887 PointsHi Michael,
You absolutely could just add the medals directory rather than the individual files. If you're absolutely certain that all the changes in that directory relate to the work you are describing in your commit message, then this is probably the most appropriate approach.
However, when we are working on real projects, it's very common to be modifying a file for one reason, and then seeing something in that file triggers us to want to change something in another file for an unrelated reason (e.g., we're making some changes to the foo algorithm and we see something that reminds us of a change we had been intending to make in bar.py). We now have changes to multiple files as part of different activities.
When we come to commit our changes and we're thinking, "I'm going to commit the work I did on the foo algorithm", we don't want to accidentally muddy our commit with files that have unrelated changes. Manually adding the individual files we know we changed as part of the activity described in the commit message is one way to ensure that our commits are tidy and only relate to one area of work.
Hope that clears things up.
Cheers
Alex