Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 11920d2 (Add a built-in alias for 'stage' to the 'add' command, > 2008-12-01) added a the 'git stage' command which simply calls > cmd_add(). Since then, no references to it have been made anywhere on > the internet; $ git sta<TAB> stage stash status So the command is discoverable. Also, googling a bit gives me this: http://git-scm.com/docs/git-stage It's not particularly visible, but it's discoverable. > there is no evidence that anyone even knows about its existence. I did :-\. I can very well live without it, but the few people like me who sometimes run "git stage" would be surprised if it stopped working without a deprecation period. (In my case, I read the thread so it's OK, but there may be others) > Documentation/git-stage.txt | 23 ----------------------- > Makefile | 3 +-- > git.c | 1 - If you go for it, there's also the completion script: _git_stage () { _git_add } -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- 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