From: Pekka Kaitaniemi <kaitanie@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: "Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@gmail.com>,
"Michele Ballabio" <barra_cuda@katamail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] git add -a
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 14:19:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080306121937.GA11882@localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803061235060.15786@racer.site>
Hi,
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 12:35:58PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Michele Ballabio
> > <barra_cuda@katamail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > There's "git add -u". It should do what you want.
> > >
> >
> > Thanks for this answer :) I wonder why "-u" and not "-a".. After all
> > git commit "-a" could be "-s" if we follow that distinction
> > (Update/Stage/All).
>
> Probably because some people would expect "git add -a" to do the same as
> "git add .", i.e. add _all_ files (even the untracked ones), as opposed to
> "git add -u", which updates all _tracked_ files.
Actually "git add -u" updates all tracked files in the _current_
directory and its subdirectories. So the current working directory
acts as a "path limiter".
Pekka
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-06 12:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-06 10:23 [RFC] git add -a Marc-André Lureau
2008-03-06 10:46 ` Michele Ballabio
2008-03-06 10:57 ` Marc-André Lureau
2008-03-06 11:35 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-03-06 12:19 ` Pekka Kaitaniemi [this message]
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