From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 05:53:14 GMT
Subject: Re: "git add -u" broken in git 1.7.4?
Message-ID: <20110207055314.GA5511@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vwrlcv1ea.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 09:50:37PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
> 
> > Sebastian Pipping <webmaster@hartwork.org> writes:
> >
> >> I was and I can confirm the different behaviour with 1.7.4 over here: it
> >> does work on the root directory of the repo as you supposed.
> >
> > What do you mean by "it does not work"?
> >
> > "git add -u" adds files under the current directory, and it always
> > did.
> 
> As it takes pathspecs (think "git add -u this-file"), it fundamentally
> shouldn't be tree-wide.  I think the original implementation didn't take
> pathspecs and was mistakenly done as tree-wide operation, but I think it
> was fixed rather quickly.

Is "git add -p" broken, then? It takes pathspecs relative to the current
directory, but "git add -p" without arguments operates from the root,
not from the current subdirectory.

-Peff