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

From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 28, 2011, 06:37 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTimqBxhHBVzet9M-6AqiCp664hkroM9QWS_1SiLP@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:39 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>> There's a problem. I use git on many machines. Some will have this
>> config enabled, some will not (yet). Perhaps a third option, which
>> will print something when "git add -u" is issued as a reminder?
>
> Such a warning would not help you on a machine that does not even have git
> with Step 1 change.
>
> What you conceive as a problem is just a reminder that any incompatible
> change you plan to add will have pain involved.  On two machines, one with
> a new feature and the other without the new feature, you would have to
> work differently _or_ you would train yourself to use both versions in a
> compatible way (e.g. when you mean tree-wide, you would cdup, and when you
> mean cwd, you would explicitly say ".", from the command line).  That is
> not limited to this particular feature but any incompatible change, no?

No. But I hoped it would help me somehow, or at least remind me to update git on the machines I touch.

-- 
Duy