Re: Multi-branch committing in git, revisited

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > There is no need for 'git add' because once you are done you can use git
> > commmit -a in each branch to add all modifications and commit them.
>
> git commit -a is not a universal solution. In particular, the patch
> I was dealing with yesterday involved additions and removals of files,
> neither of which will be implemented by git commit -a.

Uh, why is that? I see -a saying:

-a, --all
Tell the command to automatically stage files that
have been modified and deleted, but new files you have
not told git about are not affected.

What is it about add/deletes that it doesn't do? Is the problem 'git
add' creates a stage already? How is that a problem?

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