git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: Why doesn't git commit -a track new files

From
Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date
Feb 24, 2011, 16:04 UTC
Message-ID
<vpqk4gp4dxf.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To
<4D6672F7.4020101@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:
> Why does it not exist? Because you should at least
> "git add -A && git status && behappy && git commit".
There are alternatives like
git status && behappy && git commit -A
or
git commit -A && look at status $EDITOR && behapy && save
> Also, "-A" supports a very "un-gitty" way of using git. This makes it
> unlikely that someone cares to implement it...

I guess that's it. It's not usefull to most Git developers, hence nobody cared to implement it. But IIRC the switch "add -A" was chosen partly because -A didn't exist for commit, hence this leaves room for commit -A.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
Previous: Jeff KingNext: Michael J Gruber
Message 15 of 25 in “Why doesn't git commit -a track new files”
  1. MarcoFeb 24, 2011
  2. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonFeb 24, 2011
  3. Pascal ObryFeb 24, 2011
  4. MarcoFeb 24, 2011
  5. Michael J GruberFeb 24, 2011
  6. Jeff KingFeb 24, 2011
  7. Michael J GruberFeb 24, 2011
  8. Jeff KingFeb 24, 2011
  9. Michael J GruberFeb 24, 2011
  10. Jeff KingFeb 24, 2011
  11. Michael J GruberFeb 25, 2011
  12. Jeff KingFeb 25, 2011
  13. Michael J GruberFeb 25, 2011
  14. Jeff KingFeb 25, 2011
  15. Matthieu MoyFeb 24, 2011
  16. Michael J GruberFeb 24, 2011
  17. MarcoFeb 24, 2011
  18. Miles BaderFeb 25, 2011
  19. Michael J GruberFeb 25, 2011
  20. Miles BaderFeb 26, 2011
  21. Marc WeberFeb 24, 2011
  22. Junio C HamanoFeb 24, 2011
  23. MarcoFeb 24, 2011
  24. Michael J GruberFeb 25, 2011
  25. Junio C HamanoFeb 25, 2011

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.