From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
To: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>, "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
"SZEDER Gábor" <szeder@ira.uka.de>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] 'add -u' doesn't work from untracked subdir
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 14:32:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqfxb0s177.fsf@bauges.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090905084641.GA24865@darc.dnsalias.org> (Clemens Buchacher's message of "Sat\, 5 Sep 2009 10\:46\:41 +0200")
Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at> writes:
> On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 12:02:35AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> I personally find "add -u" that defaults to the current directory more
>> natural than always going to the root; same preference for "grep".
>> Besides, "add -u subdir" must add subdir relative to the cwd, without
>> going to the root. Why should "add -u" sans argument behave drastically
>> differently?
>
> Sorry for stating the obvious here, but the following commands affect the
> entire repository, even though they limit themselves to the current
> directory, if passed a '.'.
>
> git commit
> git log
> git diff
> git checkout
> git reset
You have to add "git add -e", "git add -i" and "git add -p" here.
I completely agree that "git add -u" should have been a full-tree
oriented command, just like other "git add" variants and other Git
commands, from the beginning.
Now, I'm unconfortable with both a behavior change and a config
option. Someone used to the cwd-limited behavior typing "git add -u"
on a machine configured to git the full-tree behavior could be really
annoyed (not even mentionning scripts).
I think it has already been proposed to introduce "git add -a" doing
what "git add -u" do, but for the full tree. The "-a" option here
being analogous to the one of "git commit": roughly, "git add -a; git
commit" would be equivalent to "git commit -a". This would allow a
long deprecation period for "git add -u". I find the proposal
sensible, but IIRC it has already been rejected.
--
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-06 12:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-02 8:03 [BUG] 'add -u' doesn't work from untracked subdir SZEDER Gábor
2009-09-02 8:19 ` Jeff King
2009-09-04 7:02 ` Clemens Buchacher
2009-09-05 6:18 ` Jeff King
2009-09-05 7:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-05 7:20 ` Jeff King
2009-09-05 7:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-05 8:02 ` Jeff King
2009-09-05 8:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-06 18:28 ` Clemens Buchacher
2009-09-09 23:46 ` Nanako Shiraishi
2009-09-10 19:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-10 20:32 ` Clemens Buchacher
2009-09-05 12:31 ` [PATCH 1/2] grep: accept relative paths outside current working directory Clemens Buchacher
2009-09-05 12:33 ` [PATCH 2/2] add 'scope' config option Clemens Buchacher
2009-09-05 13:10 ` [PATCH 2/2 v2] " Clemens Buchacher
2009-09-06 22:58 ` [PATCH 1/2] grep: accept relative paths outside current working directory Junio C Hamano
2009-09-07 8:48 ` [PATCH] grep: fix exit status if external_grep() returns error Clemens Buchacher
2009-09-07 18:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-05 8:19 ` [BUG] 'add -u' doesn't work from untracked subdir Jeff King
2009-09-05 7:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-05 8:46 ` Clemens Buchacher
2009-09-05 17:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-05 17:58 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-09-05 18:45 ` Clemens Buchacher
2009-09-05 21:46 ` 'add -u' without path is relative to cwd Junio C Hamano
2009-09-06 12:32 ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2009-09-06 18:16 ` [BUG] 'add -u' doesn't work from untracked subdir Clemens Buchacher
2009-09-07 6:23 ` Matthieu Moy
2009-09-07 7:33 ` SZEDER Gábor
2009-09-07 8:06 ` Matthieu Moy
2009-09-07 0:07 ` Nanako Shiraishi
2009-09-07 5:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-07 7:50 ` Clemens Buchacher
2009-09-04 8:32 ` SZEDER Gábor
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