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

From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Date: Feb 7, 2011, 06:26 UTC
Message-ID: <buo8vxsfjib.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimG6s5vSCnisJCt-EXkcJGXfY4Y3WtdB_netU08@mail.gmail.com>

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

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> git log -p and diff family all can take pathspecs. All default to
> tree-wide without pathspecs. This is what I'm doing all the time:
>
> git diff
> # checking, ok, looks good
> git add -u
> # ack, need to come to root dir first

Not to mention "git status", which shows everything in the tree when given no args, but will only show changes underneath the cwd if given "." as an argument.

I agree that the "default to root of git dir when given no args" behavior seems both more convenient -- it's annoying to specify the root of the tree explicitly, but very easy to specify the cwd explicitly (".") -- and more intuitive -- If I want "everything underneath cwd", I'll naturually specify "." as an argument; if I give no args, I almost certainly want the whole tree, no matter where I happen to be in it.

-Miles

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