From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 00:32:56 GMT
Subject: Re: way to automatically add untracked files?
Message-ID: <f95q7l$8lv$2@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <200708051411.25238.johan@herland.net>

Johan Herland wrote:

> 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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