is there an easier way to do this ?

["Zorba" <cr@altmore.co.uk>]

ok, now I'm in this for real, archiving versions of our website project (5k 
files approx)

so here is the workflow:

- copy version 1 files into GIT dir

- open git bash

$ git init

$ git add .

$ git commit -m "version1"

all vanilla ? cool
next job = store version 2, so delete version 1 files from GIT dir, copy in 
version 2
version2 has different files from 1 - which ones? Out of 5k files could be 
1% = 50 new ones, and same amount removed. Why should I care, with such a 
powerful friend as git around, n'est pas?
THIS TIME we are going to be CLEVER and use "-a" flag on commit to pick up 
any files that have been REMOVED (or "deleted" in git-speak)

$ git commit -a -m "version2"

BUT this does not pick up any new ones that have been added,

and when we run

$ git status > ../git_status.txt

these are referred to as "untracked files"
only problem there are 50 ish
is there not another flag on git commit to treat any untracked file as a new 
file ?
(would save me typing or creating a list out of these untracked ones and 
feeding them into git add)

I know, I realise now I should have looked up git-commit in the manual - in 
case its not there, pls enlighten me !