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

From: Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Date: Jan 13, 2007, 21:41 UTC
Message-ID: <200701132141.l0DLfWkG010141@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl>
In-Reply-To: <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>

Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> wrote:

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> My (albeit limited) experience with using git is at home coding a java 
> application for my web site using eclipse.  During the application 
> development when I am initially coding the application, or when I am 
> doing a major update that adds new pages to my site then I have to 
> remember to git add files.  My immediate instinct is do do commands of 
> the form
> 
> git add 
> Javasource/uk/org/chandlerfamily/appname/tapestry/pages/subdir/xxx.java
> 
> and
> git add Webcontent/subdir/xxx.html
> 
> which even with bash completion is a pain to enter.
> 
> (although that is probably harder than it needs to be - can't I just do 
> git add . ?)

That's different...

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> I don't know whether we have had the debate here - if we have done it 
> would have been in the very very early days, but subject to 
> the .gitignore rules what would be the implications of a git commit -a 
> that automatically adds any files within the directory (and 
> subdirectories) in which it is issued.

Please don't. It would add e.g. the .class and .o and all ~ files, and all other junk you have lying around (test cases, test run output, ...). It isn't /that/ much more work after creating a new file to record its existence...

> I am (at the moment - but I am good at changing my mind) in the side of 
> giit add for both adding new paths and updating content.  This is 
> purely  pragmatic - don't have to remember which one I am trying to do.

Me too. It's just a bit weird to use it to register the fact that a file is gone.

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