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'git commit .' in a subdirectory also commits staged files in other subdirectories

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YYuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
Date
Oct 21, 2022, 19:40 UTC
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I had several staged files in various subdirectories of the cloned repository tree.

'git commit .' in one of them attempted to commit all of them, not only the files in that subdirectory.

This is a very unreasonable behavior, because while being in any subdirectory 'git commit .' should only affect that subdirectory, and not files elsewhere.

git-2.38.0
FreeBSD 13.1
Yuri
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