From: Lars Noschinski <lars-2008-1@usenet.noschinski.de>
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:46:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] git-add -a: add all files
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).