As noted in the documentation[1], doing this in the background on a repository that might be simultaneously in use is a bit non-trivial. You can do it using com

As noted in the documentation[1], doing this in the background on a repository that might be simultaneously in use is a bit non-trivial. You can do it using commands that already exist in Git, but doing so safely requires knowing a fair amount of details about Git's internals. By the same argument, you could say that it's overkill to have "git commit" when we could instead just construct commit objects using the lower-level plumbing commands. This seems like a relatively small feature (about 2K lines of code by my count, a great deal of which is tests and docs) that results in a big quality-of-life improvement for anyone who works on large repositories. [1]: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-maintenance https://git-scm.com/docs/git-maintenance