Re: update-cache ./test.c

[Thomas Glanzmann <sithglan@stud.uni-erlangen.de>]

Hello,

> update-cache seems to ignore paths containing path components
> starting with a dot:

> 	pi% update-cache --add ./test.c
> 	Ignoring path ./test.c
> 	pi% update-cache --add test.c
> 	pi%

> This is slightly annoying as 'find -type f | xargs update-cache --add'
> doesn't work because of this.  ('find * -type f | ...` does.)  Instead
> of ignoring the file, can we just strip off the leading "./" ?

just use a shell script to obtain that:

find -type f | sed "s#^./##" | xargs update-cache --add

Greetings,
	Thomas