Re: way to automatically add untracked files?

["Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>]

Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:
> One way to do this seems to be just "git add .", but I'm always slightly
> nervous using it because it sits there and churns the disk for an awful
> long time (whereas "git status" is instantaneous).  Is this the right
> thing to do?  Is there something funny causing the churning?

That's the correct way to add those new files that aren't ignored.
The problem is actually a small bug in git-add; we did not take the
obvious performance optimization of skipping files that are stat
clean in the index.  So what is happening here during `git add .`
is we are reading and hashing every single file, even if it is
already tracked and is not modified.  In short we're just working
harder than we need to during this operation.

I believe this has been fixed in git 1.5.3-rc3 or rc4.  Not sure
which one; I don't have access to a git repository right now to
look it up.

-- 
Shawn.