From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 19:04:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enter interactive mode if no parameters are given to git-add
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612191101490.3483@woody.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vy7p3pxyr.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>



On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > git-add with no parameters previously adds every modified file.  This
> > patch instead makes git-add enter interactive mode.
> > ...
> > It seemed a bit nasty to add content without explicit instructions to do
> > so.
> 
> Does anybody rely on the current behaviour?

I don't know about "rely", but yes, it's what I normally do. When I import 
a tar-ball, I'll just do

	..untar..
	cd result-x.y.z
	git init-db
	git add
	git commit

and I don't usually use the "." at all, since it's unnecessary.

But hey, if it enters some interactive mode, maybe I can teach myself to 
either just do "git add .", or if the interactive mode has a choice of "a" 
for "all", then why not?

> While I think nobody should drive 'git add' from script, the
> behaviour to add everything when there is no explicit parameter
> (or fall back to interactive for that matter) has a problem if
> you say "some command | xargs git-add --" (you need "xargs -r"
> to fix it, which is GNU).

That's a really good argument against the current behaviour of "git add", 
so while I actually use it without any parameters, I will concur that we 
should probably change it.