Re: way to automatically add untracked files?

[Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>]

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>> But I'm wondering whether we'd want to include it in git by default 
>> (instead of having to tell confused users to add the alias).
>
> I recommend against that, too.  All too often, I have some temporary files 
> in the working tree, and I'll be dimmed if I'm the only one.  So 
> "addremove" adds too much possibility for pilot errors.

"Recommend against it"?  Why?

It's a separate command, so if it doesn't fit your working style, don't
use it.  I think it _is_ a well-defined and useful action ("snapshot the
working dir") that people would sometimes like to perform, and having a
simple git command to do it would be good.

Morever, as an almost trivial alias, "code bloat" is hardly an argument
against it!

[But please, call it "addrm" -- "addremove" is just gratuitously long...] 

-Miles

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