From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 01:51:37 GMT
Subject: Re: jc/add-2.0-delete-default (Re: What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2013, #05; Mon, 15))
Message-ID: <7vsj2jqqmu.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130421073918.GD10429@elie.Belkin>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> How about something like this?
>
> 	warning: "git add" run on path with files removed (e.g., '%s')
> 	hint: use "git add --ignore-removals <pathspec>" to ignore removals
> 	hint: or "git add --no-ignore-removals <pathspec>" to notice them
> 	hint: --ignore-removals is the default but this will change soon
> 	hint: see git-add(1) for details
>
> Then the --ignore-removals option could be added using a patch like
> the following.

adding ignore-removals as a synonym (and keeping it) would be a good
idea.

We would still need to carry --all and --no-all that have been with
us ever since we added "-A" option, though.