From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:40:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 3/3] git-add: rename -u to -a
Message-ID: <7vipw7aoo4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <a917b13f6944704d5f923d5790e2a43f99ae63ed.1298644872.git.git@drmicha.warpmail.net>

Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:

> since it does what "commit -a" does (minus the committing). The long

I somehow find this quite the other way around.

The original "add -u" makes perfect sense as it is a request to say: "to
the index, add _updated_ contents".  Perhaps "commit -a" is the one that
should gain a synonym "commit -u" to ask "please commit updated contents"
(implying "not new ones").