git: Avoid adding files when committing, so as not to implicitly add files like recentchanges files that are not normally checked in, when fixing links after rename.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/git.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/git.pm
index 39d88d002..3db4af729 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/git.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/git.pm
@@ -496,16 +496,16 @@ sub rcs_commit (@) {
 		return $conflict if defined $conflict;
 	}
 
-	rcs_add($params{file});
-	return rcs_commit_staged(
-		message => $params{message},
-		session => $params{session},
-	);
+	return rcs_commit_helper(@_);
 }
 
 sub rcs_commit_staged (@) {
 	# Commits all staged changes. Changes can be staged using rcs_add,
 	# rcs_remove, and rcs_rename.
+	return rcs_commit_helper(@_);
+}
+
+sub rcs_commit_helper (@) {
 	my %params=@_;
 	
 	my %env=%ENV;
@@ -546,10 +546,12 @@ sub rcs_commit_staged (@) {
 			$params{message}.=".";
 		}
 	}
-	push @opts, '-q';
-	# git commit returns non-zero if file has not been really changed.
-	# so we should ignore its exit status (hence run_or_non).
-	if (run_or_non('git', 'commit', @opts, '-m', $params{message})) {
+	if (exists $params{file}) {
+		push @opts, '--', $params{file};
+	}
+	# git commit returns non-zero if nothing really changed.
+	# So we should ignore its exit status (hence run_or_non).
+	if (run_or_non('git', 'commit', '-m', $params{message}, '-q', @opts)) {
 		if (length $config{gitorigin_branch}) {
 			run_or_cry('git', 'push', $config{gitorigin_branch});
 		}