From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 12:17:54 GMT
Subject: Re: way to automatically add untracked files?
Message-ID: <85bqdm89al.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <200708051411.25238.johan@herland.net>

Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> writes:

> So different users seem to have two different (almost incompatible) 
> expectations to git-add:
>
> 1. git-add adds new files into the index. git-add has _no_ business removing 
> deleted files from the index.
>
> 2. git-add updates the index according to the state of the working tree. 
> This includes adding new files and removing deleted files.
>
>
> Both interpretations are useful and worth supporting, but git-add
> currently seems focused on #1 (and rightly so, IMHO).
>
> Even though #2 can be achieved by using a couple of git-add
> commmands (or a longer series of more obscure plumbing-level
> commands), it might be worth considering the more user-friendly
> alternative of adding a dedicated command for supporting #2. Such a
> command already exists in a similar RCS:

[...]

> Adding a git-addremove command should not be much work, and it would
> be a lot friendlier to people whose workflow is more aligned with #2
> than #1.

Maybe just git-add -a?

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum