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From: "Nikolai Weibull" <now@bitwi.se>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-add -u: match the index with working tree.
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:18:25 +0200
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On 4/20/07, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> Karl Hasselstr=F6m <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>..=
=2E";
> >> +"git-add [-n] [-v] [-f] [--interactive | -i] [-u] [--] <filepatte=
rn>...";
> >
> > 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