Re: way to automatically add untracked files?
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> So different users seem to have two different (almost incompatible)
> expectations to git-add:
>
> 1. git-add adds new files into the index. git-add has _no_ business removing
> deleted files from the index.
>
> 2. git-add updates the index according to the state of the working tree.
> This includes adding new files and removing deleted files.
>
>
> Both interpretations are useful and worth supporting, but git-add currently
> seems focused on #1 (and rightly so, IMHO).
>
> Even though #2 can be achieved by using a couple of git-add commmands (or a
> longer series of more obscure plumbing-level commands), it might be worth
> considering the more user-friendly alternative of adding a dedicated
> command for supporting #2. Such a command already exists in a similar RCS:
>
> ---
> $ hg addremove --help
> hg addremove [OPTION]... [FILE]...
>
> add all new files, delete all missing files
git update-index --add --remove?
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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>