From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 18:04:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [COGITO PATCH] Allow file list for cg-add through stdin
Message-ID: <20050529180442.GK1036@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <4299FE8A.1060207@roemling.net>

Dear diary, on Sun, May 29, 2005 at 07:40:26PM CEST, I got a letter
where Jochen Roemling <jochen@roemling.net> told me that...
> |Hello,

Hello,

> how is the preferred way to add a whole new directory to a 
> git-repository using cogito?
> Currently cg-add expects all new files on the command line.
> The following patch allows to feed files through stdin, which allows to do
> 
>    find mynewdir -type f | cg-add -

if you really want to do that, pass it through xargs...

> What about a functionality to specify a directory on the command line 
> and all files are
> recursively added?

...but I think this is definitively the right way to go.

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