Re: update-cache ./test.c

From

TGThomas Glanzmann <sithglan@stud.uni-erlangen.de>

Date

May 1, 2005, 08:47 UTC

Message-ID

<20050501084710.GJ26663@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>

In-Reply-To

<20050501084145.GA30692@xi.wantstofly.org>

Hello,

> update-cache seems to ignore paths containing path components
> starting with a dot:

> 	pi% update-cache --add ./test.c
> 	Ignoring path ./test.c
> 	pi% update-cache --add test.c
> 	pi%

> This is slightly annoying as 'find -type f | xargs update-cache --add'
> doesn't work because of this.  ('find * -type f | ...` does.)  Instead
> of ignoring the file, can we just strip off the leading "./" ?

just use a shell script to obtain that:

find -type f | sed "s#^./##" | xargs update-cache --add

Greetings,
	Thomas