Re: way to automatically add untracked files?

From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Date: Aug 5, 2007, 05:17 UTC
Message-ID: <87y7gqk1ac.fsf@catnip.gol.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vzm16h8qw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

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

> I highly suspect that we will be hated by most of our users if we
> changed "git add -u" to add everything in sight for this reason, and I
> also suspect they will feel that "git add-remove --all" will be code
> bloat for little gain.

I agree that a change to "git-add -u" would be silly... :-)

I was just looking for a convenient way to reduce my typing on those occasions when I do have a bunch of added/removed/renamed files; "git-add -u; git add ." seems to do the trick (of course I always check what git-status says first!).

Thanks,

-Miles

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