Re: way to automatically add untracked files?

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Aug 5, 2007, 04:13 UTC
Message-ID: <20070805041320.GH9527@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <fc339e4a0708042100jdf0a0f1jd1fddfb5dc1c1052@mail.gmail.com>

Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:

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> I previously wrote
> > One thing I often want to do is git-add all untracked files, and also
> > automatically git-rm all "disappeared" files
> ...
> > One way to do this seems to be just "git add ."
> 
> Oh, also, "git add ." doesn't seem to do the right thing with
> "dissapeared" files:  If I do:
> 
>     mv foo.cc bar.cc
>     git add .

Right. Who wants "add" to actually mean "add and delete"? Shouldn't that be then called "git-add-and-rm"?

We recently talked about this on the mailing list and decided that git-add shouldn't remove files that have disappeared, as doing so might break most user's expections of what git-add does.

> then git-status will show a new  file "bar.cc", but will list "foo.cc"
> as "deleted " in the "Changed but not updated" section.  Perhaps the
> right thing will happen if I do "git-commit -a" (though I don't know,
> I don't really want to try it),

"git commit -a" will remove disappeared files. It has for quite some time.

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> this still results in incorrect
> "git-diff --cached" output (it shows bar.cc as a new file, not as a
> rename of foo.cc).
> 
> Am I doing something wrong, or is this just missing functionality?

Try adding the -M option to "git-diff". That will enable the rename detection, and show the rename you are looking to see.

-- 
Shawn.