# Improvement of git add interface

1 messages from 2011-05-06 to 2011-05-06. Participants: Patrick Häcker.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/27281

## Patrick Häcker, 2011-05-06 12:03

Subject: Improvement of git add interface
Message-ID: <201105061403.28674.patrick.haecker@lss.uni-stuttgart.de>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/201105061403.28674.patrick.haecker%40lss.uni-stuttgart.de

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Hello,

I introduce git to students and thus see, where they have a harder time than 
necessary to understand git.

Thus, I was thinking about a CLI improvement regarding "git add". It follows 
from the observation, that the students can learn consistent interfaces 
faster.

Similar to "ls -a" = "ls --all" there is a "git commit -a" = "git commit --
all", which means the same thing: use all files (with the known exceptions 
in git). There is a "git add -A" = "git add --all", too, which is basically 
the same. This leads to the following consistency question: Why is there no 
"git add -a"? I suggest adding "git add -a" as an alias to "git add -add". 
Maybe "git add -A" could then be deprecated in the long run, to not waste 
option name space, but this can be discussed later.

Kind regards
Patrick

P.S. Please CC, as I am not subscribed

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Patrick Häcker
Universität Stuttgart 
Lehrstuhl für Systemtheorie und Signalverarbeitung 
Tel: +49 711 685 67362
E-Mail: patrick.haecker@lss.uni-stuttgart.de
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