Re: Commiting automatically (2)

From: Maaartin <grajcar1@seznam.cz>
Date: Dec 20, 2010, 05:12 UTC
Message-ID: <loom.20101220T060758-200@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20101219183619.GB11955@burratino>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder <at> gmail.com> writes:

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> Hmm, the "git add" manual suggests it is the other way around:
> 
>  -A, --all
> 	Like -u, but match <filepattern> against files in the working
> 	tree in addition to the index. That means that it will find new
> 	files as well as staging modified content and removing files
> 	that are no longer in the working tree.
> 
> So I would expect "git add -A" to do the same thing as "git add -u",
> plus handling added files.
> 
> Maaartin, could you give an example showing where add -A goes wrong?

I can't, since I was wrong. These commits have two parents (I'm not sure if this is a good idea), and that's why I saw no changes in the log. Actually, "git add - A" does everything I need, and with "/bin/cp .git/index $GIT_INDEX_FILE" everything seems to work. Sorry for the noise.