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by formerly_proven 1286 days ago
borg et al and "git commit" work in essentially the same way. Both scan the entire tree for changes using modification timestamps.
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> borg et al and "git commit" work in essentially the same way. Both scan the entire tree for changes using modification timestamps.

But git commit doesn’t do that. If you want to do that in git, you typically do it before commit with “git add -A”.