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Re: 'git add' option to non-interactively stage working tree changes

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Hrvoje Nikšić <hniksic@gmail.com>
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Jan 7, 2011, 20:03 UTC
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On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
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> Hrvoje Nikšić <hniksic@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Specifying the root may seem innocuous, but it is inconsistent with
>> "git diff" and "git commit [-a]", which don't care where in the tree
>> you are.
>
> You can always use "$(git rev-parse --show-cdup)." as the root.

Thanks for the tip. I'll note that this is not exactly easy to discover, though, and it's quite some typing. Since git add -p and git add -i seem capable of determining the root themselves, maybe there should be a way to do the same for -u? Or even make it the default?

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  1. Hrvoje NikšićJan 7, 2011
  2. Andreas SchwabJan 7, 2011
  3. Hrvoje NikšićJan 7, 2011
  4. Junio C HamanoJan 7, 2011
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