From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 23:41:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] "git add -A/--no-all" finishing touches
Message-ID: <7vvc7ayy84.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130425232410.GN29963@google.com>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> At the point of calling warn_pathless_add(), it seems that we are
>> triggering this for paths that are not necessarily modified when run
>> with "add -n -u".
>
> Do you mean files that were touched but have no content change, or
> something more subtle?

I had the change (which by the way needs a fix for the "found a
directory" codepath) on top of master, uncommitted, and no other
change (I also have some cruft that is not ignored).

    cd Documentation && ../git add -n -u

reported GIT-VERSION-GEN which was not touched.  It does not
reproduce, though...