From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:08:44 GMT
Subject: Re: "git add" and absolute paths
Message-ID: <m33asi9jxp.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <916BAC14-A5E4-4666-A29E-2CDF114DCD87@wincent.com>

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":
>
[cut] 
> 
> 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...

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git