From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:06:35 GMT
Subject: Re: How to "git add ." when some files are not accessible (permission denied)?
Message-ID: <7vmypfh8s4.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <47CC4EAC.1050905@dirk.my1.cc>

Dirk Süsserott <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc> writes:

> This way prepared, I used "git ls-files -o | xargs git add -v" until
> most of my files were added.
> ...
> Caveat: filenames containing blanks are not handled properly as they
> are not surrounded by quotes. "git add" thinks of them as two or more
> files and fails.

Perhaps "git ls-files -z -o | git update-index --add --stdin"