by directly listing files containing changes to be committed as arguments to the \fIcommit\fR command, in which cases only those files alone will be considered for the commit;
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-by using the \-a switch with the \fIcommit\fR command to automatically "add" changes from all known files i.e. files that have already been committed before, and perform the actual commit.
+by using the \-a switch with the \fIcommit\fR command to automatically "add" changes from all known files i.e. files that have already been committed before, and to automatically "rm" files that have been removed from the working tree, and perform the actual commit.
The \fBgit\-status\fR(1) command can be used to obtain a summary of what is included by any of the above for the next commit by giving the same set of parameters you would give to this command.