From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 02:31:32 GMT
Subject: Re: "git add -u" broken in git 1.7.4?
Message-ID: <20110210023132.GB5073@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=dmqRQqBD2HZfv2x-kxaqrxvSx3r62d09KMP1k@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 09:24:55AM +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

> > I don't think it's worth moving ls-files/ls-tree. They're plumbing that
> > people don't use frequently. So the cost of moving them is high (because
> > we are breaking something meant to be scriptable) and the benefit is low
> > (because users don't type them a lot).
> 
> No we should not, but we should add --full-tree to
> ls-files/ls-tree/archive. I'd love "ls-files --full-tree
> '*somefile*'".

ls-tree already has --full-tree (and --full-name, which just gives full
pathnames but still restricts output to files in the current directory).
ls-files. ls-files has --full-name, but AFAIK needs a matching
--full-tree.

-Peff