From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 16:13:44 GMT
Subject: Re: Newbie falls at first hurdle
Message-ID: <7vek7nbrk7.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <200509171309.46893.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>

Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> writes:

> So 'git-update-cache --add *' would seem to be the next step.
>
> However this fails with a message 
>
> error: JavaSource: is a directory
> fatal: Unable to add JavaSource to database; maybe you want to use --add 
> option?

Sorry, that is not a very helpful error message.

We do not track 'directories'.  Only files and symlinks, which
could live within subdirectories, and that's why you got that
error message -- you told it to add a directory.  You'd need
something like this:

    $ find * ! -type d -print0 | xargs -0 git add