From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:17:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-add -u: match the index with working tree.
Message-ID: <7vejmfz44g.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070420104930.GB13560@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>

Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> writes:

> On 2007-04-20 01:42:18 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> This is a shorthand of what "git commit -a" does in preparation
>> for making a commit,
> [snip]
>> -"git-add [-n] [-v] [-f] [--interactive | -i] [--] <filepattern>...";
>> +"git-add [-n] [-v] [-f] [--interactive | -i] [-u] [--] <filepattern>...";
>
> Any particular reason for choosing a different letter than the
> -a/--all that git commit uses?

I picked "-u" instead of "-a" because I wanted to stress that
this is about "updating" (which has connotation that it is
relative to something, and in this case it is relative to the
current "index"), and not about "all", which "-a" would imply.