From: Thomas Glanzmann <sithglan@stud.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 08:47:10 GMT
Subject: Re: update-cache ./test.c
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