Re: way to automatically add untracked files?

Miles Bader [off-list ref] writes:

Anyway, I wouldn't be complaining except that I _keep_ running into
circumstances where I need to type "git-add NEWFILE1 NEWFILE2
NEWFILE3...; git rm OLD_FILE1..." -- which is kind of annoying after
seeing a list of _exactly_ the files I need to add/remove output just
previously by git-status.  Thus my wish to have git "do it
automatically."

As Linus explained in another thread, "git rm" is largely
unneeded.  Just work with the filesystem in normal UNIX way, and
be done with "git add -u" or even "git commit -a" and you will
be fine.

If you are more perfect than most other people in maintaining
the .gitignore file, you do not even have to name individual
files like "git add NEWFILE1..." -- you can always safely run
"git add .".

Most of us are not as perfect as you are, as you might have
noticed that Randal pointed out this morning that we missed a
new entry from our own .gitignore ;-) I highly suspect that we
will be hated by most of our users if we changed "git add -u" to
add everything in sight for this reason, and I also suspect they
will feel that "git add-remove --all" will be code bloat for
little gain.