# Suggestion for 'git add' CLI 2 messages from 2022-07-11 to 2022-07-11. Participants: me@alirezaarabi.com, Junio C Hamano. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/58130 ## me@alirezaarabi.com, 2022-07-11 06:58 Subject: Suggestion for 'git add' CLI Message-ID: <84b593cf1bacc4541a7a4ca24a5e98fa@alirezaarabi.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/84b593cf1bacc4541a7a4ca24a5e98fa%40alirezaarabi.com ``` hi there, I have a suggestion about git CLI.when I use 'git add -A' or 'git add --all' it stages all of my files but when I use git add it adds the file name to the stage, not all files. but when I use ' git add --all ' it also works and adds all the files to the stage. I think it's better to provide a warning for this situation. thank you. ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2022-07-11 19:31 Subject: Re: Suggestion for 'git add' CLI Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/xmqqsfn7o39i.fsf%40gitster.g In-Reply-To: <84b593cf1bacc4541a7a4ca24a5e98fa@alirezaarabi.com> ``` me@alirezaarabi.com writes: > hi there, I have a suggestion about git CLI.when I use 'git add -A' or > 'git add --all' it stages all of my files but when I use git add > it adds the file name to the stage, not all files. but > when I use ' git add --all ' it also works and adds all > the files to the stage. I think it's better to provide a warning for > this situation. thank you. If "git add -A Documentation/" silently ignores the pathspec and does not limit the application of "-A" to the Documentation directory, then I think that is a bug worth fixing. $ git init trash && cd trash $ mkdir t s $ >t/1 && >s/2 $ git add -A t $ git ls-files t/1 It does seem to honor the pathspec "t" and refrains from adding s/2 to the index, so I do not think there is anything to fix here, though. By the way, on the command line of "git", dashed command options come before the non-dashed command line arguments, so make it a habit to spell "git --add ". ```