Re: [PATCH 2/2] git-add -a: add all files

From: Lars Noschinski <lars-2008-1@usenet.noschinski.de>
Date: Jul 20, 2008, 20:46 UTC
Message-ID: <20080720204647.GA31432@lars.home.noschinski.de>
In-Reply-To: <7v4p6k8l36.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

* Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> [08-07-20 20:30]:

>So for such people who would find "add -A" useful, "commit -a" will not be
>"unrelated changes in the same commit".  And for such people, I would even
>say "commit -A" would be even more useful, too.

There is one occasion I could use a "add -A": To shorten

     git add -u; git add .; git commit -m "wip"; git checkout $stuff

So in my opinion, if one wants a "stage my whole workdir" option, it would be suited best as an option to commit (and maybe stash).

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