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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 7, 2011, 19:31 UTC
Message-ID: <7vaai7vdys.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110207183412.GB1900@neumann>

SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> writes:

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> _Everything_ relative to the current working directory?  I can't
> imagine how would that work in practice.  Could you explain what would
> the following commands do, for example, when they are relative to the
> current working directory?
>
>   $ cd t
>   $ git checkout next
>   $ git merge somebranch
>   $ git reset HEAD^

Perhaps I stated things badly. I was only talking about commands that take pathspecs, and none of the above are relevant to this thread. You don't check out a branch with pathspec, nor merge another branch, nor reset the index and the HEAD pointer.

I wouldn't point out that "git checkout next -- this-file" is to check out a file out of a commit, not to check out a branch, as I think you already know that.