From: Robin Rosenberg Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:29:46 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] add: warn when -u or -A is used without filepattern Message-ID: <2025469478.4311560.1358800186770.JavaMail.root@dewire.com> In-Reply-To: ----- Ursprungligt meddelande ----- > > git diff > > #looks good > > git add -u > > That's indeed the kind of mistake I'd like to avoid. In your example, > "git diff" is tree-wide, and "git add -u" is limited to ., so in > general > "git add -u" won't stage the same thing as "git diff" just showed. Good point. I rarely cd to anything but the top of the tree, but that might be just me. OTOH, git diff after -u would remind me. It would bad if -u was tree wide and diff wasn't, but fortunately that's not the case. The -A is a bit worse since it adds all the crap files lying around. -- robin