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

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Sep 5, 2009, 08:19 UTC
Message-ID
<20090905081915.GA11392@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<20090905072017.GA5152@coredump.intra.peff.net>
On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 03:20:17AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
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> As I mentioned above, not only is that annoying to use, but the real
> problem is that I _expect_ the other behavior and it silently does the
> opposite of what I want. You can argue that my brain is defective (for
> not remembering, I mean -- we _know_ it's defective in other ways), but
> certainly a config option would be useful to me.

Bah. Even after this long thread, I _still_ forgot. I just now typed "git add -u" from t/ and got annoyed that my changes in the root weren't added.

-Peff
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  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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