From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [RFC] git add -a Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 12:35:58 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: References: <200803061146.00500.barra_cuda@katamail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="8323584-329444853-1204803359=:15786" Cc: Michele Ballabio , git@vger.kernel.org To: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Marc-Andr=E9_Lureau?= X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 06 12:37:13 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JXEOq-00006J-G6 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:36:36 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753645AbYCFLf7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Mar 2008 06:35:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753533AbYCFLf7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Mar 2008 06:35:59 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:56886 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753460AbYCFLf6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Mar 2008 06:35:58 -0500 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 06 Mar 2008 11:35:56 -0000 Received: from host86-138-198-40.range86-138.btcentralplus.com (EHLO racer.home) [86.138.198.40] by mail.gmx.net (mp025) with SMTP; 06 Mar 2008 12:35:56 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+b6xwrq86bFwdyvjJTlbvGkAcpUzF+0IStu0sUro fkQeAovHAFlEF4 X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LSU 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --8323584-329444853-1204803359=:15786 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Hi, On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Marc-André Lureau wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Michele Ballabio > 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. Hth, Dscho --8323584-329444853-1204803359=:15786--