From: Dirk Süsserott <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc>
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:32:17 GMT
Subject: Re: How to "git add ." when some files are not accessible (permission denied)?
Message-ID: <47CC6051.1090308@dirk.my1.cc>
In-Reply-To: <7vmypfh8s4.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano schrieb:
> Dirk Süsserott <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc> writes:
>
>   
>> This way prepared, I used "git ls-files -o | xargs git add -v" until
>> most of my files were added.
>> ...
>> Caveat: filenames containing blanks are not handled properly as they
>> are not surrounded by quotes. "git add" thinks of them as two or more
>> files and fails.
>>     
>
> Perhaps "git ls-files -z -o | git update-index --add --stdin"
>
>   
That's exactly what I meant when I wrote "Git almost always has a 
solution for 'do what I mean'".
It is, however, sometimes hard to find, but the solution is always there.
Its such a great piece of software. Congratulations to you all.