From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] git-add -a: add all files Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:17:32 -0400 Message-ID: <20080721001731.GC12454@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <48806897.1080404@fastmail.fm> <76718490807181318o228171f9j836aaca2edb9b377@mail.gmail.com> <7vsku5grpr.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vk5fhgrm6.fsf_-_@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <905315640807192120k45b8c0e3k5b341e77c466dde@mail.gmail.com> <76718490807200545l653bbda1l4d13f1e1e698c855@mail.gmail.com> <7v4p6k8l36.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080720235933.GA12454@sigill.intra.peff.net> <7vprp814oe.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Jay Soffian , Johannes Schindelin , Tarmigan , git@vger.kernel.org, Michael J Gruber To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jul 21 02:18:36 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 1KKj6p-0000LI-3g for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:18:35 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754414AbYGUARf (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:17:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754397AbYGUARf (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:17:35 -0400 Received: from peff.net ([208.65.91.99]:1437 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754275AbYGUARf (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:17:35 -0400 Received: (qmail 6938 invoked by uid 111); 21 Jul 2008 00:17:32 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) (smtp-auth username relayok, mechanism cram-md5) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with ESMTP; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:17:32 -0400 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:17:32 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vprp814oe.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 05:06:41PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > But again, I haven ever felt the lack of this feature; such usage for me > > always goes in scripts, where I am more than happy to write out "add . > > && add -u && commit". > > The reason we did not have such "feature" so far was not because somebody > high in the git foodchain was opposed to the idea, but simply because > nobody came up with a usable patch to do so. > > I do not have anything fundamentally against "add -A" nor "commit -A". To > me, this is in "perhaps nice to have for some people, but I would not use > it myself and I wouldn't bother" category, not in "I'm opposed -- it would > promote bad workflow" cateogry. I think I didn't make my point well; I am also not that I am opposed to this feature. The paragraph you quoted meant to say "What I described above with commit -A is what I think people who are asking for this feature want. But _I_ don't actually want it, even as somebody who does this workflow, so I might be wrong." -Peff