From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 21:02:57 GMT
Subject: Re: "git add -u" broken in git 1.7.4?
Message-ID: <20110207210257.GA14963@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <vpqtygfa7g8.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 09:57:43PM +0100, Matthieu Moy wrote:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 
> > I would say so; "add -p" was an ill-executed afterthought.  The codepath
> > was originally meant to be used from "-i" as the top-level interface that
> > was a fully interactive way to prepare for the next commit, which is an
> > operation that is inherently full-tree.
> 
> I agree that "git add -i" is a way to prepare the next commit, but you
> seem to imply that "git add -u" is not and then I have to disagree.

How about "git commit -a"? Shouldn't that be more or less equivalent to
"git add -u && git commit"? But it is full-tree.

So I think there is less "we do it one way, and this is the outlier" and
more "we are horribly inconsistent".

-Peff