From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 21:27:51 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] git rm -u Message-ID: <7vobgjk0iw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <7v622rn1bh.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Junio C Hamano writes: > Matthieu Moy writes: > >> "git add -u" is one of the only exceptions (with "git grep"). I consider >> this as a bug, and think this should be changed. This has been discussed >> several times here, but no one took the time to actually do the change > > Did we ever agree that it is a good change to begin with? Pointers? I think you can guess but I no longer need pointers. Others may still be helped, though. The argument IIRC boils down to - "git add -u" was made a whole-tree operation when there weren't the ":/" magic pathspec, but "add -u" is very often something you want to do whole tree, and "(cd ../../..; git add -u)" or "git add -u ../../.." are too cumbersome to type. - "git add -u ." to limit it to the current directory is easy to type. - As we have the "from the root" magic pathspec these days, requiring "git add -u :/" when the user really means to add everything is no longer too much of a burden, but if we suddenly changed "git add -u" to mean "git add -u .", that is too much of a change in the semantics.