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From: "Nikolai Weibull" <now@bitwi.se>
To: "Junio C Hamano" <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: "Karl Hasselström" <kha@treskal.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-add -u: match the index with working tree.
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:18:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dbfc82860704200418o4d27b5a6pc3ea2f5abe25be8e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7virbrz47b.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 4/20/07, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> writes:
>
> > On 2007-04-20 01:42:18 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> >> This is a shorthand of what "git commit -a" does in preparation
> >> for making a commit,
> > [snip]
> >> -"git-add [-n] [-v] [-f] [--interactive | -i] [--] <filepattern>...";
> >> +"git-add [-n] [-v] [-f] [--interactive | -i] [-u] [--] <filepattern>...";
> >
> > Any particular reason for choosing a different letter than the
> > -a/--all that git commit uses?
>
> Haven't I explain that elsewhere already?

Yes, in <7vzm531ly3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>.

Specifically:

> I picked "-u" instead of "-a" because I wanted to stress that
> this is about "updating" (which has connotation that it is
> relative to something, and in this case it is relative to the
> current "index"), and not about "all", which "-a" would imply.

  nikolai

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-20 11:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-20  8:42 [PATCH] git-add -u: match the index with working tree Junio C Hamano
2007-04-20  8:42 ` [PATCH] Do not show progress meter while checking files out Junio C Hamano
2007-04-20  9:37   ` Johannes Sixt
2007-04-20 12:37   ` Andy Parkins
2007-04-20 12:46   ` Matthieu Moy
2007-04-20 13:04   ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-04-20 14:46     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-04-20 13:12   ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-04-20 10:49 ` [PATCH] git-add -u: match the index with working tree Karl Hasselström
2007-04-20 11:16   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-20 11:18     ` Nikolai Weibull [this message]
2007-04-20 11:39       ` Karl Hasselström
2007-04-20 11:17   ` Junio C Hamano

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