Re: Multi-branch committing in git, revisited

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.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,
butnew 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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