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From: Eric Raible <raible@nextest.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>,
	Sebastian Pipping <webmaster@hartwork.org>,
	Git ML <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Re: "git add -u" broken in git 1.7.4?
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 17:25:31 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D509B8B.6090607@nextest.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vhbcguytf.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 11:59 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I actually do not mind too much myself if all commands that can take
> pathspecs consistently defaulted to "full-tree" pathspec given no
> pathspec.  But if we were to go that route, everybody should join their
> voice to defend that decision when outside people say "in 1.8.0 'git grep'
> run from a subdirectory shows matches from all the irrelevant parts of the
> tree; with all the cruft its output is unreadable". I won't be the sole
> champion of such a behaviour when I do not fully believe in it.

IFUC this shouldn't affect any (correctly written) scripts,
and so the only downside is that (when run in a subdir) commands
that are currently spelled:

	git xxx

would with this change need to be spelled:

	git xxx .

One advantage of this approach is that one's fingers would
learn the "only this dir" two char sequence very quickly.

So FWIW, I will do my best to help defend such a decision.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-08  1:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-06  0:39 "git add -u" broken in git 1.7.4? Sebastian Pipping
2011-02-06  5:13 ` Jeff King
2011-02-06 19:35   ` Sebastian Pipping
2011-02-06 20:48     ` Matthieu Moy
2011-02-06 23:19       ` SZEDER Gábor
2011-02-06 23:49         ` Sebastian Pipping
2011-02-07  5:50       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-07  5:53         ` Jeff King
2011-02-07  6:46           ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-07  7:29             ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-02-07 18:34             ` SZEDER Gábor
2011-02-07 19:31               ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-07 19:50             ` Jeff King
2011-02-08 10:05               ` SZEDER Gábor
2011-02-09 21:03                 ` Jeff King
2011-02-09 22:40                   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-09 23:46                     ` Jeff King
2011-02-10  2:24                       ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-02-10  2:31                         ` Jeff King
2011-02-10  2:46                           ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-10  7:46                       ` Johannes Sixt
2011-02-10  8:13                       ` Joshua Juran
2011-02-10 18:00                       ` Matthieu Moy
2011-02-15  7:04                       ` [PATCH] command-list.txt: mark git-archive plumbing Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-02-15 19:11                         ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-16  9:32                           ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-02-07 20:57             ` "git add -u" broken in git 1.7.4? Matthieu Moy
2011-02-07 21:02               ` Jeff King
2011-02-07 21:49                 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-08  1:25             ` Eric Raible [this message]
2011-02-08  2:16               ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-07  6:48           ` Matthieu Moy
2011-02-07  8:27             ` Michael J Gruber
2011-02-07 11:15         ` SZEDER Gábor

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