From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:06:32 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Mar 2011, #02; Sun, 20)
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In-Reply-To: <vpqlj09a303.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:

> 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.