Re: way to automatically add untracked files?

Johan Herland [off-list ref] writes:

So different users seem to have two different (almost incompatible) 
expectations to git-add:

1. git-add adds new files into the index. git-add has _no_ business removing 
deleted files from the index.

2. git-add updates the index according to the state of the working tree. 
This includes adding new files and removing deleted files.


Both interpretations are useful and worth supporting, but git-add
currently seems focused on #1 (and rightly so, IMHO).

Even though #2 can be achieved by using a couple of git-add
commmands (or a longer series of more obscure plumbing-level
commands), it might be worth considering the more user-friendly
alternative of adding a dedicated command for supporting #2. Such a
command already exists in a similar RCS:

[...]

Adding a git-addremove command should not be much work, and it would
be a lot friendlier to people whose workflow is more aligned with #2
than #1.

Maybe just git-add -a?

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