Re: How to stage a tree with all changes?

David Kastrup [off-list ref] writes:

Suppose I have a number of changes in a tree: additions, deletions,
renames and so on.

At commit time, a rename is just an add+delete for git. It'll
investigate renames with heuristics later, when needed.

How do I stage and commit all of that?

Well, what I usually do is

  $ git status

(nicer with 
[status]
	color = auto
in ~/.gitconfig)

and then "confirm" one by one the things I actually want to commit.

git-commit -a

omits new files.

git-add .
git-commit -a

The -a is not necessary if you just did "git add .".

seemingly overlooks deletions.

In most cases, you'd have deleted the files with "rm", and you could
have told git at that time, using "git rm" instead. Otherwise,

  $ git-ls-files -z | git-update-index --remove -z --stdin

will remove deleted files from the index after the fact. But I don't
know any porcelain command to do that. Perhaps a "git rm -u" could be
a nice dual for "git add -u"?

-- 
Matthieu