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Re: adding file by absolute name -- problem

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Apr 23, 2007, 10:16 UTC
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Hi,
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Yakov Lerner wrote:
> When I give absolute pathname /a/b/repo/d to git add, it
> mostly does not work. I get errors from git-add. Is it by design ?

AFAICT it is by design. I fail to see why absolute paths should be supported, too. You are supposed to be _in_ the working directory when adding files...

Ciao, Dscho

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