From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 15:27:49 GMT Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2013, #05; Tue, 12) Message-ID: <7vpq04b5e2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Andrew Ardill writes: > On 13 February 2013 11:34, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> The change could negatively affect people who expect that removing >> files that are not used for their purpose (e.g. a large file that is >> unnecessary for their build) will _not_ affect what they get from >> "git add ."; > > How big a problem is this? As you said below, it could be fairly big, if you expect a lot of people do not use "git add -u". > If we need to support this behaviour than I would suppose a config > option is required. A default config transition path similar to git > push defaults would probably work well, in the case where breaking > these expectations is unacceptable. We've discussed that before. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/171811/focus=171818 >> obviously they must have trained themselves not to do >> "git add -u" or "git commit -a". > > Many people use git add -p by default, so I would not be surprised > about people not using -u or -a.