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Re: way to automatically add untracked files?

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Aug 6, 2007, 12:17 UTC
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<200708060946.12793.johan@herland.net>
Hi,
On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Johan Herland wrote:
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> On Monday 06 August 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> > > >> But I'm wondering whether we'd want to include it in git by default 
> > > >> (instead of having to tell confused users to add the alias).
> > > >
> > > > I recommend against that, too.  All too often, I have some temporary files 
> > > > in the working tree, and I'll be dimmed if I'm the only one.  So 
> > > > "addremove" adds too much possibility for pilot errors.
> > > 
> > > "Recommend against it"?  Why?
> > 
> > Didn't I say that? It just _asks_ for pilot errors.
> 
> Ok, in that spirit I also suggest removing _all_ git plumbing-level commands
> from the default installation.
Oh, come on.  You were talking about a porcelain command.

Ciao, Dscho

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  1. Miles BaderAug 5, 2007
  2. Shawn O. PearceAug 5, 2007
  3. Junio C HamanoAug 5, 2007
  4. Miles BaderAug 5, 2007
  5. Shawn O. PearceAug 5, 2007
  6. Miles BaderAug 5, 2007
  7. Junio C HamanoAug 5, 2007
  8. Miles BaderAug 5, 2007
  9. Junio C HamanoAug 5, 2007
  10. Miles BaderAug 5, 2007
  11. Junio C HamanoAug 5, 2007
  12. Miles BaderAug 5, 2007
  13. Johannes SchindelinAug 5, 2007
  14. Miles BaderAug 5, 2007
  15. Steffen ProhaskaAug 5, 2007
  16. Johan HerlandAug 5, 2007
  17. David KastrupAug 5, 2007
  18. Theodore TsoAug 5, 2007
  19. Johan HerlandAug 5, 2007
  20. Miles BaderAug 6, 2007
  21. Johannes SchindelinAug 6, 2007
  22. Miles BaderAug 6, 2007
  23. Johannes SchindelinAug 6, 2007
  24. Miles BaderAug 6, 2007
  25. Johan HerlandAug 6, 2007
  26. Johannes SchindelinAug 6, 2007
  27. Steffen ProhaskaAug 5, 2007
  28. Johannes SchindelinAug 6, 2007
  29. Steffen ProhaskaAug 6, 2007
  30. Jakub NarebskiAug 6, 2007
  31. Johan HerlandAug 6, 2007
  32. Junio C HamanoAug 6, 2007
  33. David KastrupAug 6, 2007
  34. Miles BaderAug 7, 2007
  35. Linus TorvaldsAug 5, 2007
  36. Junio C HamanoAug 5, 2007
  37. David KastrupAug 5, 2007
  38. Benchmarking git-add vs git-ls-files+update-index (was: way to automatically add untracked files?)David Kastrup, Aug 5, 2007
  39. Miles BaderAug 5, 2007
  40. Linus TorvaldsAug 5, 2007

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