From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:05:10 GMT
Subject: Re: Tracking CVS
Message-ID: <7vveqtp1dl.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060622135831.GB21864@pasky.or.cz>

Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:

> If you want to be safe even with filenames containing newlines, you need
> to go at the Git level:
>
> 	git-ls-files -z --others | \
> 		xargs -0 git-update-index --add --

If you want to avoid "xargs -0", you can replace it with
"git-update-index -z --stdin" I think.

> Perhaps we might make a special command which would sync the index set
> with the working copy set...

I think that makes sense.  Something like what "git-commit -a"
does before making a commit.