Comment 5 for bug 448310

It's not suitable to be interactive if there are tenths of files to add, not to mention hundreds or thousands.

If you use '--strict', you don't need it to be interactive and you'll get an error if you try to commit in a "dirty" tree.
The option is here because it's really a personal preference (or a project preference) to allow
"dirty" trees or not.

You seem to be a candidate for using it, let us know if aliasing the command (as John
proposed) suits your needs or if you would have preferred a configuration option set either at
the global level (bazaar.conf), intermediate level (locations.conf) or branch level (branch.conf).