Re: way to automatically add untracked files?

From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Date: Aug 5, 2007, 07:34 UTC
Message-ID: <87hcnejuxp.fsf@catnip.gol.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708042157150.5037@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

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> But git certainly has the capability. "git commit -a" will notice all the 
> files that went away and automatically remove them, so
>
> 	git add .
> 	git commit -a
>
> will do what you want (except, as we found out last week, we've had a huge 
> performance regression, so that's actually a really slow way to do it, and 
> so it's actually faster to do
>
> 	git ls-files -o | git update-index --add --stdin
> 	git commit -a

I notice that "git ls-files -o" doesn't do normal ignore-processing, so for instance all my .o and editor backup files show up in the output... Is that expected or is it a bug (I tried versions "1.5.2.4" and "1.5.3.rc3.91.g5c75-dirty")?

If I do:

   git-ls-files -o --exclude-per-directory=.gitignore --exclude-from=$HOME/.gitignore

it works more like I'd expect.

Thanks,

-Miles

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