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

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Sep 5, 2009, 08:02 UTC
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<20090905080249.GA8801@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 12:58:50AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > I assume you mean "ls-files".  I have every once in a while been annoyed
> > by that, but given how infrequently I run ls-files, it is not a big
> > deal. :)
> 
> I did mean ls-tree, but I misspelled the name of the escape hatch.

Oh, I never noticed that behavior before. For "ls-files", I think it is at least a little sane, but it makes no sense whatsoever for ls-tree.

> At this moment (as my brain is not quite functioning), I can only say we
> agreed to disagree what feels more natural here.

I agree that we agreed to disagree. But there is still one open question: would you take a patch for a "full-tree" config variable that would impact add (and probably grep) for 1.7.0? You can sleep on it if you want. ;)

-Peff
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Message 8 of 35 in “[BUG] 'add -u' doesn't work from untracked subdir”
  1. SZEDER GáborSep 2, 2009
  2. Jeff KingSep 2, 2009
  3. Clemens BuchacherSep 4, 2009
  4. Jeff KingSep 5, 2009
  5. Junio C HamanoSep 5, 2009
  6. Jeff KingSep 5, 2009
  7. Junio C HamanoSep 5, 2009
  8. Jeff KingSep 5, 2009
  9. Junio C HamanoSep 5, 2009
  10. Clemens BuchacherSep 6, 2009
  11. Nanako ShiraishiSep 9, 2009
  12. Junio C HamanoSep 10, 2009
  13. Clemens BuchacherSep 10, 2009
  14. 1/2 grep: accept relative paths outside current working directoryClemens Buchacher, Sep 5, 2009
  15. 2/2 add 'scope' config optionClemens Buchacher, Sep 5, 2009
  16. 2/2 add 'scope' config optionClemens Buchacher, Sep 5, 2009
  17. Junio C HamanoSep 6, 2009
  18. grep: fix exit status if external_grep() returns errorClemens Buchacher, Sep 7, 2009
  19. Junio C HamanoSep 7, 2009
  20. Jeff KingSep 5, 2009
  21. Junio C HamanoSep 5, 2009
  22. Clemens BuchacherSep 5, 2009
  23. Junio C HamanoSep 5, 2009
  24. Jakub NarebskiSep 5, 2009
  25. Clemens BuchacherSep 5, 2009
  26. Junio C HamanoSep 5, 2009
  27. Matthieu MoySep 6, 2009
  28. Clemens BuchacherSep 6, 2009
  29. Matthieu MoySep 7, 2009
  30. SZEDER GáborSep 7, 2009
  31. Matthieu MoySep 7, 2009
  32. Nanako ShiraishiSep 7, 2009
  33. Junio C HamanoSep 7, 2009
  34. Clemens BuchacherSep 7, 2009
  35. SZEDER GáborSep 4, 2009

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