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

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Mar 1, 2011, 14:53 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqipw2rixy.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <7vk4gkk5pd.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> I already do not like the possibility of potential double deprecation
> myself, one to flip the default and then possibly another to drop the
> support of the traditional behavour, but anything I've seen so far would
> hurt the end users more than that plan.

I think promoting "git add -u ." more than a configuration option would reduce the pain.

As a user, if I get used to typing "git add -u ." instead of "git add -u", I get the current behavior regardless of the version of Git, without a warning. Later, when all the machines I word on support the tree-wide "git add -u" (either 1.7.x + some configuration or 1.8.y), I'll use it as a new feature.

So, a warning like

  warning: the behavior of "git add -u" without pathspec will change in
  Git 1.8.0. To keep the current behavior, use this instead:
  
      git add -u .
  
  + explanations about the config options as already discussed here

would be fine.

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Matthieu Moy
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