why does bazaar not add a file automatically on the first commit

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Rahul Nabar wrote:
| I find myself repeating this cycle so often that I wonder there isn't
| a combined command / option.
|
| #made a new file foo.cfg
| bzr commit ~/foo.cfg
| bzr: ERROR: Path(s) are not versioned: ~/foo.cfg
| bzr add ~/foo.cfg
| bzr commit ~/foo.cfg
|
| If a user requests a commit and the file is not being tracked why
| doesn't bazaar automatically add it  rather than complain? If the user
| demanded a commit it is reasonable to assume he wants that file added?
| Perhaps with some option --force etc. Is that a feature  / bug? Maybe
| there's some subtlety I am not aware of! Just curious!
|
| I must mention that I've a .bzrignore set to * since I'm using it to
| version scattered scripts and config files across my system.
|

I believe we want to add a "bzr commit -a" for "--auto" which will add files
that are unversioned, etc. It just hasn't been implemented yet. I'm not sure how
that would work with ignore *. I suppose if you still specified a filename, it
should probably dad it and commit.

John
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