Re: [RFC] git add -a

From: Pekka Kaitaniemi <kaitanie@cc.helsinki.fi>
Date: Mar 6, 2008, 12:19 UTC
Message-ID: <20080306121937.GA11882@localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803061235060.15786@racer.site>

Hi,

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 12:35:58PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Michele Ballabio
> > <barra_cuda@katamail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >  There's "git add -u". It should do what you want.
> > >
> > 
> > Thanks for this answer :) I wonder why "-u" and not "-a".. After all
> > git commit "-a" could be "-s" if we follow that distinction
> > (Update/Stage/All).
> 
> Probably because some people would expect "git add -a" to do the same as 
> "git add .", i.e. add _all_ files (even the untracked ones), as opposed to 
> "git add -u", which updates all _tracked_ files.

Actually "git add -u" updates all tracked files in the _current_ directory and its subdirectories. So the current working directory acts as a "path limiter".

Pekka