git add -A is not adding all modified files in directories

Question

I want to add all files no matter what: whether it is deleted, created, modified, untracked, etc? I just don\'t want to git add ALL my files EVERY T

Answer 1

Let's quote the documentation for -A:

       -A, --all
       Like -u, but match  against files in the working tree in addition to the
       index. That means that it will find new files as well as staging modified content and
       removing files that are no longer in the working tree.

Note the critical word: . You need to give it a pattern that matches, recursively, all the way down your tree.