Re: [PATCH] Add a built-in alias for 'stage' to the 'add' command

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

"Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> On 12/2/08, Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com> wrote:
>>  diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
>>  index 89feb0b..9e5813c 100644
>>  --- a/git.c
>>  +++ b/git.c
>>  @@ -266,6 +266,7 @@ static void handle_internal_command(int argc, const char **argv)
>>         const char *cmd = argv[0];
>>         static struct cmd_struct commands[] = {
>>                 { "add", cmd_add, RUN_SETUP | NEED_WORK_TREE },
>>  +               { "stage", cmd_add, RUN_SETUP | NEED_WORK_TREE },
>>                 { "annotate", cmd_annotate, RUN_SETUP },
>>                 { "apply", cmd_apply },
>>                 { "archive", cmd_archive },
>
> Nit-picking. There are some references to "git add" in builtin-add.c,
> like help usage or error message ("Maybe you wanted to say 'git add
> .'?\n"). Should it refer to "git stage" instead as well?

I do not think that is necessary.  As git-stage(1) makes it clear, it is
an alias to "add", not the other way around.