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Re: What's cooking in git.git (Mar 2011, #02; Sun, 20)

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Mar 21, 2011, 00:06 UTC
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Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
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> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> Unfortunately
>> we do not have a good way to let people who have already heard
>> about the transition to squelch it yet.
>
> How about an advice.addWithoutPath config variable to disable it?
I don't think it is worth it; I'd rather see :/ magic implemented earlier.

Another possibility is to error out on "git add -u" without pathspec in a subdirectory as an error in 1.8.0, and then make it full-tree in 1.8.X in a distant future, but that wouldn't be as pleasant.

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Message 6 of 15 in “What's cooking in git.git (Mar 2011, #02; Sun, 20)”
  1. Junio C HamanoMar 20, 2011
  2. Jens LehmannMar 20, 2011
  3. Junio C HamanoMar 20, 2011
  4. Junio C HamanoMar 20, 2011
  5. Matthieu MoyMar 20, 2011
  6. Junio C HamanoMar 21, 2011
  7. Jeff KingMar 21, 2011
  8. Junio C HamanoMar 21, 2011
  9. add: make "add -u/-A" update full tree without pathspecJunio C Hamano, Mar 23, 2011
  10. add: make "add -u/-A" update full tree without pathspec (step 2)Junio C Hamano, Mar 23, 2011
  11. add: make "add -u/-A" update full tree without pathspec (step 3)Junio C Hamano, Mar 23, 2011
  12. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyMar 23, 2011
  13. Junio C HamanoMar 23, 2011
  14. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMar 22, 2011
  15. Junio C HamanoMar 22, 2011

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