From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:44:51 GMT
Subject: Re: git-add--interactive works only in top level
Message-ID: <7vwsrv9fos.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <058EB5A2-1EFE-43B9-9886-7272A955CE51@mit.edu>

Reid Barton <rwbarton@MIT.EDU> writes:

> When the working directory is not the top of the working tree, git-
> add--interactive fails silently and confusingly.

Sheesh, you got me worried.

This is a non issue; git-add--interactive is not for direct end user
consumption.  It relies on being run from git-add wrapper, which does
cdup to the top of the work tree before launching add--interactive
helper.