From: Reid Barton <rwbarton@mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 06:07:12 GMT
Subject: Re: git-add--interactive works only in top level
Message-ID: <4BC1648E-3059-4373-B388-65AD739796D8@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <7vwsrv9fos.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Dec 4, 2007, at 12:44 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Sheesh, you got me worried.
>
> This is a non issue; git-add--interactive is not for direct end user
> consumption.  It relies on being run from git-add wrapper, which does
> cdup to the top of the work tree before launching add--interactive
> helper.

Ah, OK.  Would it not be easy then to add a check to the beginning of  
git-add--interactive to verify that it is indeed being run from the  
top of the work tree?  A user may well discover git-add--interactive  
before git-add --interactive (e.g. by shell completion) and if git- 
add--interactive is going to fail, it should do so right away so as  
to not confuse the user.

I understand that programs such as git-add--interactive will be moved  
out of the executable path not too long from now, which will also  
ameliorate the situation.

Regards,
Reid Barton