From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 05:50:37 GMT
Subject: Re: "git add -u" broken in git 1.7.4?
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In-Reply-To: <vpq1v3kopn3.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:

> Sebastian Pipping <webmaster@hartwork.org> writes:
>
>> I was and I can confirm the different behaviour with 1.7.4 over here: it
>> does work on the root directory of the repo as you supposed.
>
> What do you mean by "it does not work"?
>
> "git add -u" adds files under the current directory, and it always
> did.

As it takes pathspecs (think "git add -u this-file"), it fundamentally
shouldn't be tree-wide.  I think the original implementation didn't take
pathspecs and was mistakenly done as tree-wide operation, but I think it
was fixed rather quickly.