Re: Importing from tarballs; add, rm, update-index?

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Jan 13, 2007, 20:34 UTC
Message-ID: <20070113203456.GA17648@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <8E585186-FC3F-473B-BA1F-91CFEF1A63F4@silverinsanity.com>

Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com> wrote:

> Yes.  It sounds very much like you want to simply do "git add . ; git  
> commit -a".  But making that the default for "commit -a" would be  
> obnoxious for many other people.

I find it annoying that "commit -a" isn't implemented in terms of "git add .". Mainly because I'll make a number of changes in Eclipse then go back and do "commit -a" and only days later discover that I have untracked files in my working directory which should have been added to the commit several days ago.

Although despite the fact that I always have my .gitignore setup 
properly, every once in a while I'll change something to produce
a new file that Git should really ignore, and I'll forget to put
it into .gitignore.  Having some sort of "commit -a" which adds
that new file would be an issue.

> A more through version ("git commit --everything"?) that also adds  
> files would be fine, but don't muck up the existing -a, please.

Yes, breaking -a may be a problem.

-- 
Shawn.