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

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jul 21, 2008, 00:17 UTC
Message-ID: <20080721001731.GC12454@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vprp814oe.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 05:06:41PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> > But again, I haven ever felt the lack of this feature; such usage for me
> > always goes in scripts, where I am more than happy to write out "add .
> > && add -u && commit".
> 
> The reason we did not have such "feature" so far was not because somebody
> high in the git foodchain was opposed to the idea, but simply because
> nobody came up with a usable patch to do so.
> 
> I do not have anything fundamentally against "add -A" nor "commit -A".  To
> me, this is in "perhaps nice to have for some people, but I would not use
> it myself and I wouldn't bother" category, not in "I'm opposed -- it would
> promote bad workflow" cateogry.

I think I didn't make my point well; I am also not that I am opposed to this feature. The paragraph you quoted meant to say "What I described above with commit -A is what I think people who are asking for this feature want. But _I_ don't actually want it, even as somebody who does this workflow, so I might be wrong."

-Peff