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Bug report: git status suggests the old "-a" flag on git add

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ATAndrew Tennikoff <andrew@malalta.com>
Date
Jul 8, 2022, 02:44 UTC
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Thank you for filling out a Git bug report! Please answer the following questions to help us understand your issue.

What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue) `git status` suggests using `git add -a`

What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior) `git status` suggests using `git add -A` as per the documentation of `git add`

What happened instead? (Actual behavior) The old `git add -a` flag was suggested

What's different between what you expected and what actually happened? See above

Anything else you want to add:

Please review the rest of the bug report below. You can delete any lines you don't wish to share.

[System Info] git version: git version 2.33.1 cpu: arm64 no commit associated with this build sizeof-long: 8 sizeof-size_t: 8 shell-path: /bin/sh uname: Darwin 21.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 21.5.0: Tue Apr 26 21:08:29 PDT 2022; root:xnu-8020.121.3~4/RELEASE_ARM64_T8101 arm64 compiler info: clang: 13.0.0 (clang-1300.0.29.3) libc info: no libc information available $SHELL (typically, interactive shell): /bin/zsh

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Regards, Andrew.

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