Re: update-cache ./test.c

From: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Date: May 1, 2005, 08:54 UTC
Message-ID: <20050501085427.GB30692@xi.wantstofly.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050501084710.GJ26663@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>

On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 10:47:10AM +0200, Thomas Glanzmann wrote:

> Hello,

Hi,

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> > 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

This also works:

	find * -type f | xargs update-cache --add

But that wasn't quite the point :) It makes sense that update-cache doesn't like ambiguous path names, but it's easier for update-cache to detect and strip "^./" than for me to remember to type sed "s#^./##" every time.

--L