From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 18:19:53 GMT
Subject: Re: way to automatically add untracked files?
Message-ID: <85tzrcfrue.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <7vwsw9capl.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
>
>> We recently talked about this on the mailing list and decided that
>> git-add shouldn't remove files that have disappeared, as doing so
>> might break most user's expections of what git-add does.
>> ...
>> "git commit -a" will remove disappeared files.  It has for quite
>> some time.
>
> It obviously is not the time to do this as I have already said
> that I won't look at anything but fixes and documentation
> updates until 1.5.3, but I am not opposed to have "git add -a $paths"
> which would do something like "git add $paths && git add -u $paths".

I'm all for it.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum