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Re: "git add" and absolute paths

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 28, 2008, 13:08 UTC
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Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com> writes:
> I was somewhat surprised the other day to see that you can't pass
> absolute paths to "git add":
>
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> I understand that you can't add arbitrary paths outside of your
> worktree, but if the absolute path specifies something _inside_ your
> worktree then it seems that this is either a bug or a "usability
> shortcoming" if you prefer to avoid the term "bug".

If I remember correctly this issue was discussed on git mailing list, and I guess there were even some patches implementing that, but I don't know what happened iwth them: freeze persiod, troubles with Cygwin (MS Windows), or what...

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Jakub Narebski
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