Re: way to automatically add untracked files?

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

But git certainly has the capability. "git commit -a" will notice all the 
files that went away and automatically remove them, so

	git add .
	git commit -a

will do what you want (except, as we found out last week, we've had a huge 
performance regression, so that's actually a really slow way to do it, and 
so it's actually faster to do

	git ls-files -o | git update-index --add --stdin
	git commit -a

I notice that "git ls-files -o" doesn't do normal ignore-processing, so
for instance all my .o and editor backup files show up in the output...
Is that expected or is it a bug (I tried versions "1.5.2.4" and
"1.5.3.rc3.91.g5c75-dirty")?

If I do:

   git-ls-files -o --exclude-per-directory=.gitignore --exclude-from=$HOME/.gitignore

it works more like I'd expect.

Thanks,

-Miles

-- 
`The suburb is an obsolete and contradictory form of human settlement'

On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, Miles Bader wrote:

I notice that "git ls-files -o" doesn't do normal ignore-processing, so
for instance all my .o and editor backup files show up in the output...

Yeah, I'm a moron.

Is that expected or is it a bug

It's expected (I just didn't try the command line I gave you).

"git ls-files" is low-level plumbing, and those things generally do only 
what you ask from them and never anything user-friendly. In particular, 
they tend to avoid policy decisions. An example of this is "git diff" that 
colorizes the output by default as you have specified, but "git diff-tree" 
that does not.

			Linus