From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 10:16:30 GMT
Subject: Re: adding file by absolute name -- problem
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704231215370.8822@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <f36b08ee0704230239i4892983q4feb4a1872a320ea@mail.gmail.com>

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