From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 23:19:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] "git add -A/--no-all" finishing touches
Message-ID: <7v4neu19mj.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vhaiu1a89.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> One thing I noticed about Jonathan's warn_pathless_add() thing is
> that even though it knows for which path we would behave differently
> between the current version and Git 2.0, the warning message does
> not say which path outside the current directory would be added if
> not restricted with an explicit ".", and leaves the reader in
> suspense.
>
> We may want to fix it by tweaking the end of the message, perhaps?

Hmph, bad idea.

At the point of calling warn_pathless_add(), it seems that we are
triggering this for paths that are not necessarily modified when run
with "add -n -u".