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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Mar 2011, #02; Sun, 20)
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On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 05:06:32PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
> 
> > Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> >
> >> Unfortunately
> >> we do not have a good way to let people who have already heard
> >> about the transition to squelch it yet.
> >
> > How about an advice.addWithoutPath config variable to disable it?
> 
> I don't think it is worth it; I'd rather see :/ magic implemented earlier.
> 
> Another possibility is to error out on "git add -u" without pathspec in a
> subdirectory as an error in 1.8.0, and then make it full-tree in 1.8.X in
> a distant future, but that wouldn't be as pleasant.

I thought we cared about giving fans of the current behavior a way to
keep it (without having to use additional syntax). Script-writers
already need to use "./" to be portable to old versions of git, so it's
not hurting them (unless you want to count N years into the future, when
we can discount such old versions).

-Peff