From: Nikolai Weibull <now@bitwi.se>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:18:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-add -u: match the index with working tree.
Message-ID: <dbfc82860704200418o4d27b5a6pc3ea2f5abe25be8e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7virbrz47b.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 4/20/07, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> writes:
>
> > On 2007-04-20 01:42:18 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> >> This is a shorthand of what "git commit -a" does in preparation
> >> for making a commit,
> > [snip]
> >> -"git-add [-n] [-v] [-f] [--interactive | -i] [--] <filepattern>...";
> >> +"git-add [-n] [-v] [-f] [--interactive | -i] [-u] [--] <filepattern>...";
> >
> > Any particular reason for choosing a different letter than the
> > -a/--all that git commit uses?
>
> Haven't I explain that elsewhere already?

Yes, in <7vzm531ly3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>.

Specifically:

> I picked "-u" instead of "-a" because I wanted to stress that
> this is about "updating" (which has connotation that it is
> relative to something, and in this case it is relative to the
> current "index"), and not about "all", which "-a" would imply.

  nikolai