Re: [PATCH 1.8.0] add: make "add -u" update full tree without pathspec

From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 27, 2011, 17:04 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTim9EOHBtZj5h1+xs9C_WhpcycwoPbWZHrZ38w+E@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpqoc5x4saj.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:

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> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> Step 2, two cycles (i.e. 6-8 months) before 1.8.0, provided if the
>> previous step is proven positive:
>>
>>  * When "git add -u" is run without any pathspec, and when the user does
>>    not have the configuration variable, warn loudly that the default
>>    behaviour will change in 1.8.0,
>
> I'd even say "error out", since the old behavior is still easily
> available with "git add -u ." (which should be mentionned in the
> warning/error message).

You wouldn't want scripts to break this way. Warnings can give script writers some time to update (assume that scripts are installed system wide, not in $HOME).

-- 
Duy