Re: [PATCH RFC 1/3] add: add new --exclude option to git add

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 15, 2015, 20:09 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqtwxmt43h.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cR52GKNZkgsytUrb0m3wwY2T68cxjNB_OV+uLxvQUh=VA@mail.gmail.com>

Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:

> The commit message is missing the important justification for why this
> new option is desirable, and why only git-add needs it.

I think that is a very good point. I actually do not see why this option is ever needed, in a modern world that has the negative pathspec magic.

Is there a reason why this is undesiable

    $ git add -- \*.c ':!secret.c'

and has to be spelled as

    $ git add --exclude=secret.c -- \*.c

I do not see why...