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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 21, 2008, 00:06 UTC
Message-ID: <7vprp814oe.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080720235933.GA12454@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> 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.

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