Re: Add + Status patches

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: Apr 18, 2005, 22:35 UTC
Message-ID: <20050418223529.GK5554@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <42643224.60407@dgreaves.com>

Dear diary, on Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 12:18:12AM CEST, I got a letter where David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com> told me that...

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> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> >DG> It allows:
> >DG>  find src -type f | git add -
> >
> >I am slow today, but have you considered using xargs?
> >
> > 
> >
> yep thanks :)
> I know you _could_ do it with xargs - but you _could_ use the raw git 
> commands too. This is a "be nice to the user" layer and I was 
> 'surprised' that neither
> git add .
> nor
> git add -r .
> worked.

Actually, when I saw your patch, the xargs solution rushed through my mind but I thought that '-' might be practical too. Thinking about it, I couldn't come up with anything. So, what about instead making git add . to work? ;-)

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