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

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 9, 2011, 22:40 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> The most compelling I have seen is "you tend to notice accidental
> full-tree sooner than accidental relative behavior". Which you mentioned
> in your email.

Hmph. You earlier mentioned "oops, I just pushed this commit and it turns out that I screwed up "git add" five minutes ago and it only had half of the files I intended" problem, but "oops, I just pushed this commit and it turns out that I screwed up "git add" five minutes ago and it had more changes than I intended" problem would be equally annoying, and I don't think one is inherently more likely to be noticed than the other; IOW, it is not compelling, but is just an arbitrary and a biased observation, no?

The most compelling, especially if we _were_ designing from scratch to make things consistent across the command set, would be "limiting to cwd with single dot is a lot easier to type than counting ../, using / to mean the root of the working tree is confusing, and saying --full-tree is annoying". I fully agree with that.

Can somebody volunteer to come up with a comprehensive list of operations that will change their behaviour when we switch to "full-tree without pathspec" semantics? We mentioned "grep" and "add -u" already.

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  15. Jeff KingFeb 9, 2011
  16. Junio C HamanoFeb 9, 2011
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  21. Johannes SixtFeb 10, 2011
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  24. command-list.txt: mark git-archive plumbingNguyen Thai Ngoc Duy, Feb 15, 2011
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  27. Matthieu MoyFeb 7, 2011
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