[BUG] 'add -u' doesn't work from untracked subdir

From: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Date: Sep 2, 2009, 08:03 UTC
Message-ID: <20090902080305.GA11549@neumann>

Hi,

As the subject says, 'git add -u' does not work from an untracked subdir, because it doesn't add modified files to the index. The following script reproduces the issue:

mkdir repo cd repo git init echo 1 >foo git add foo git commit -m first echo 2 >foo mkdir untracked_subdir cd untracked_subdir git add -u git diff

It worked in the initial 'git add -u' implementation (dfdac5d, git-add -u: match the index with working tree, 2007-04-20), but 2ed2c222 (git-add -u paths... now works from subdirectory, 2007-08-16) broke it later, and is broken ever since.

Regards, Gábor

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