Re: automatically removing missing files beneath a directory

["Geoffrey Irving" <irving@naml.us>]

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 10:12:56AM -0700, Geoffrey Irving wrote:
>
>> Cool.  "git add -u && git add ." does exactly what I want.
>>
>> This is only indirectly mentioned in the documentation.  If you think
>> it's reasonable to mention it more explicitly, I've attached a patch.
>
> Yeah, the term "update" is not really defined there. I actually prefer
> to mention it even earlier in the paragraph; does this make sense to
> you?
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt
> index 35e67a0..e2389e3 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-add.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt
> @@ -71,7 +71,9 @@ OPTIONS
>        the specified filepatterns before exiting.
>
>  -u::
> -       Update only files that git already knows about. This is similar
> +       Update only files that git already knows about, staging modified
> +       content for commit and marking deleted files for removal. This
> +       is similar
>        to what "git commit -a" does in preparation for making a commit,
>        except that the update is limited to paths specified on the
>        command line. If no paths are specified, all tracked files in the

Yep, that's better than mine.

Geoffrey