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Re: git-add--interactive works only in top level

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Dec 4, 2007, 06:22 UTC
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Reid Barton <rwbarton@MIT.EDU> writes:
> I understand that programs such as git-add--interactive will be moved
> out of the executable path not too long from now, which will also
> ameliorate the situation.

Honestly, there is nothing to ameliorate. We do not even document git-add--interactive on purpose.

Once I saw somebody who somehow got a root account on a shared UNIX box and tryed running everything he found under /sbin one after another without understanding what he was doing. Needless to say, the box did not last too long. Somehow that "tab completion" comment reminds of him.

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