From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 07:13:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-add: allow path limiting with -u
Message-ID: <7vejlm5xax.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070512064159.GA7471@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Rather than updating all working tree paths, we limit
> ourselves to paths listed on the command line.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> ---
> This turned out to be quite easy to implement. Patch is slightly larger
> than necessary due to removing _all_ from the variable names, but I
> think that better expresses the new functionality.
>
> I'm not sure that the documentation needs updated at all; I had just
> assumed after reading it that 'git-add -u foo' would DWIM.

Wonderful, and I agree it should be almost trivial once you
understand how diff works.  Will take a look.