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Re: Re: "git add -u" broken in git 1.7.4?

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EREric Raible <raible@nextest.com>
Date
Feb 8, 2011, 01:25 UTC
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On 11:59 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> I actually do not mind too much myself if all commands that can take
> pathspecs consistently defaulted to "full-tree" pathspec given no
> pathspec.  But if we were to go that route, everybody should join their
> voice to defend that decision when outside people say "in 1.8.0 'git grep'
> run from a subdirectory shows matches from all the irrelevant parts of the
> tree; with all the cruft its output is unreadable". I won't be the sole
> champion of such a behaviour when I do not fully believe in it.

IFUC this shouldn't affect any (correctly written) scripts, and so the only downside is that (when run in a subdir) commands that are currently spelled:

	git xxx
would with this change need to be spelled:
	git xxx .

One advantage of this approach is that one's fingers would learn the "only this dir" two char sequence very quickly.

So FWIW, I will do my best to help defend such a decision.
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Message 30 of 34 in “"git add -u" broken in git 1.7.4?”
  1. Sebastian PippingFeb 6, 2011
  2. Jeff KingFeb 6, 2011
  3. Sebastian PippingFeb 6, 2011
  4. Matthieu MoyFeb 6, 2011
  5. SZEDER GáborFeb 6, 2011
  6. Sebastian PippingFeb 6, 2011
  7. Junio C HamanoFeb 7, 2011
  8. Jeff KingFeb 7, 2011
  9. Junio C HamanoFeb 7, 2011
  10. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 7, 2011
  11. SZEDER GáborFeb 7, 2011
  12. Junio C HamanoFeb 7, 2011
  13. Jeff KingFeb 7, 2011
  14. SZEDER GáborFeb 8, 2011
  15. Jeff KingFeb 9, 2011
  16. Junio C HamanoFeb 9, 2011
  17. Jeff KingFeb 9, 2011
  18. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 10, 2011
  19. Jeff KingFeb 10, 2011
  20. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2011
  21. Johannes SixtFeb 10, 2011
  22. Joshua JuranFeb 10, 2011
  23. Matthieu MoyFeb 10, 2011
  24. command-list.txt: mark git-archive plumbingNguyen Thai Ngoc Duy, Feb 15, 2011
  25. Junio C HamanoFeb 15, 2011
  26. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 16, 2011
  27. Matthieu MoyFeb 7, 2011
  28. Jeff KingFeb 7, 2011
  29. Junio C HamanoFeb 7, 2011
  30. Eric RaibleFeb 8, 2011
  31. Junio C HamanoFeb 8, 2011
  32. Matthieu MoyFeb 7, 2011
  33. Michael J GruberFeb 7, 2011
  34. SZEDER GáborFeb 7, 2011

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