Difference between $ git add --all vs $ git add *?

Question

When I do $ git add * sometimes I realized that git doesn't add the deleted files to the stage and I need to indicate manually if remove or add it, but I can't figure out what's the difference with $ git add --all. So if the asterisk () indicates 'everything' (), why git doesn't add all like **--all flag'?

I checked the git documentation git-add and some Difference between “git add -A” and “git add .” but doesn't specify the case when using asterisk.

Also the first answer in git add * (asterisk) vs git add . (period) indicates:

add * means add all files in the current directory, except for files, whose name begin with a dot. This is your shell functionality, actually, Git only receives a list of files.

So it means that is identically * and --all?

Thanks

Answer 1

The difference is:

• git add -A adds everything from the top git repo folder.
  It operates on the entire working tree, and not just on the current path.
• git add * adds the files (as expanded by the shell, without dotfiles) from the current folder.
  It operates starting from the current path.