[PATCH] git add - recursive directories

[PATCH] git add - recursive directories

[Joshua T. Corbin]

This patch does two things:
  1) git add will now by default recursively add any directories given to it.
  2) this can be disabled and the old behavior used instead with the new -n
     switch.

Signed-off-by: Joshua T. Corbin <jcorbin@wunjo.org>

Index: git
===================================================================
--- 2aaf94eae20acc451553766f3c063bc46cfa75c6/git  (mode:100755 
sha1:f8f5e0e4e5c50102415cd479619dd7598d3c42e1)
+++ 58dd789846677d8d0848b608e365e9742d2db642/git  (mode:100755 
sha1:24d8c30383fa11d049aafcd659cefe700afe1cf1)
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 Usage: git COMMAND [ARG]...
 
 Available commands:
-	add		FILE...
+	add		[-n] FILE...
 	addremote	RNAME RSYNC_URL
 	apply				< patch on stdin
 	cancel
Index: gitadd.sh
===================================================================
--- 2aaf94eae20acc451553766f3c063bc46cfa75c6/gitadd.sh  (mode:100755 
sha1:fa77d96198dd7d5ebf47bdedb296995ab7e77cf3)
+++ 58dd789846677d8d0848b608e365e9742d2db642/gitadd.sh  (mode:100755 
sha1:f0b030e1b4d770d96dabd5350e25f2e8fad5e59d)
@@ -5,10 +5,31 @@
 #
 # Takes a list of file names at the command line, and schedules them
 # for addition to the GIT repository at the next commit.
+# Optional "-n" parameter specifies that you don't want to add directories
+# recursively.
 
 if [ ! "$1" ]; then
-	echo "gitadd.sh: usage: git add FILE..." >&2
+	echo "gitadd.sh: usage: git add [-n] FILE..." >&2
 	exit 1;
 fi
 
-update-cache --add -- "$@"
+recur=1
+if [ "$1" = "-n" ]; then
+  shift
+  recur=
+fi
+
+if [ $recur ]; then
+  ADDFILE=$(mktemp -t gitadd.XXXXXX)
+  while [ "$1" ]; do
+    if [ -d "$1" ]; then
+      find $1 -type f -and -not -name '.*'
+    else
+      echo "$1"
+    fi
+    shift
+  done > $ADDFILE
+  update-cache --add -- $(cat $ADDFILE)
+else
+  update-cache --add -- "$@"
+fi