From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 05:58:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1.8.0] add: make "add -u" update full tree without pathspec
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In-Reply-To: <1297045643-26697-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy  <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> When -u was introduced in dfdac5d (git-add -u: match the index with
> working tree., 2007-04-20), "add -u" (without pathspec) added
> everything. Shortly after, 2ed2c22 (git-add -u paths... now works from
> subdirectory, 2007-08-16) broke it while fixing something related.

As long as the command takes pathspecs, it should never be tree-wide.
Making it tree-wide when there is no pathspec is even worse.

If "add -p" does not limit operation to the current directory, probably
that is the inconsistency bug to be fixed.