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

From
Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Date
Sep 5, 2009, 18:45 UTC
Message-ID
<20090905184508.GA20124@localhost>
In-Reply-To
<7veiql1etz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 10:28:08AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> But notice that the above is qualified with "personally".  An alternative
> would be to declare that in 1.8.0, all commands run without path argument
> will work on the whole tree and you have to give an explicit '.' when you
> want to limit their effect to the cwd.
That's fine by me.
[...]
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>
> Please also see:
> 
>     Message-ID: <7vy6ot4x61.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> ($gmane/127795)
> 
> think about the three questions there, and help us move the discussion
> forward.

The patch is my way of saying that I'm not just whining, but that I'm willing to put some effort into getting this done. I am aware of the issues you raised in the above message and I was hoping that my patch would help us as a starting point to move the discussion forward.

> The first part of the message has some comments related to your patch, by
> the way.

I can only guess that you mean the "sane way for script writers to defeat the configuration without much pain" part. But I'm not sure how that's a problem. If you want the script to continue to work as before you either configure "workdir scope", or you add a '.' to the affected commands.

Clemens
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Message 25 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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