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From: Lars Noschinski <lars-2008-1@usenet.noschinski.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] git-add -a: add all files
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* Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> [08-07-20 20:30]:
>So for such people who would find "add -A" useful, "commit -a" will not be
>"unrelated changes in the same commit".  And for such people, I would even
>say "commit -A" would be even more useful, too.

There is one occasion I could use a "add -A": To shorten

     git add -u; git add .; git commit -m "wip"; git checkout $stuff

So in my opinion, if one wants a "stage my whole workdir" option, it
would be suited best as an option to commit (and maybe stash).