On 13 February 2013 11:34, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The change could negatively affect people who expect that removing > files that are not used for their purpose (e.g. a large file that is > unnecessary for their build) will _not_ affect what they get from > "git add ."; How big a problem is this? If we need to support this behaviour than I would suppose a config option is required. A default config transition path similar to git push defaults would probably work well, in the case where breaking these expectations is unacceptable. > obviously they must have trained themselves not to do > "git add -u" or "git commit -a". Many people use git add -p by default, so I would not be surprised about people not using -u or -a. Regards, Andrew Ardill -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html