From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E9FD20282 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2017 04:52:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750991AbdFUEwN (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jun 2017 00:52:13 -0400 Received: from ikke.info ([178.21.113.177]:49334 "EHLO vps892.directvps.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750836AbdFUEwN (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jun 2017 00:52:13 -0400 Received: by vps892.directvps.nl (Postfix, from userid 1008) id 318FC4400AB; Wed, 21 Jun 2017 06:52:11 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 06:52:11 +0200 From: Kevin Daudt To: Kaartic Sivaraam Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Small issue with "add untracked" option of 'git add -i' Message-ID: <20170621045211.GA30634@alpha.vpn.ikke.info> References: <1497278015.7302.13.camel@gmail.com> <1498013726.5419.1.camel@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1498013726.5419.1.camel@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.8.3 (2017-05-23) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 08:25:26AM +0530, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote: > > I tried applying the patch and building it locally. For some reason I > couldn't see the change in effect. What could I be missing? > Did you make sure you used the git you built, and also the relevant subcommands? What does `which git` and git --exec-path return? If you did not install git, but try to run it in the compiled dir, you can better run bin-wrappers/git, which will make sure the correct sub commands are run.