Same here. It's easier to just always be explicit and avoid any possible weirdness. I think it's a personality trait thing, though... some people are ok with a certain level of "magic" in the form of implicit behavior, and some people like things to be very explicit.

Put me in the camp of people who generally prefer explicit over implicit. shrug

I've gotten in that habit as well, but then, I'm a neat freak when it comes to git, always using `git add -p` and filtering out any unrelated changes into different commits. I'm often dismayed how sloppy other programmers are with git :)

Commit messages like "Ugh, I really need to commit more often. Did X, Y, Z, and maybe some other stuff." make me cringe. Those people need this change the most!