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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Subject: Re: "git add -u" broken in git 1.7.4?
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 08:46:35 +0100
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Am 2/10/2011 0:46, schrieb Jeff King:
> The current behavior is:
> 
>   add:    error (and suggest "git add .")
>   add -u: relative
>   add -A: relative
>   add -i: full-tree
>   add -p: full-tree
>   archive: relative
>   checkout: full-tree (e.g., "git checkout -f")[1]
>   checkout-index: n/a (only checks out arguments)
>   clean: relative
>   commit -a: full-tree[2]
>   diff: full-tree
>   diff-files: full-tree
>   grep: relative
>   ls-files: relative
>   ls-tree: relative[3]
>   status: shows full-tree, relative by default, absolute
>           with status.relativePaths
>   reset --hard: full-tree[4]
>   log/show/etc: full-tree[5]
>   blame: error[6]

    rerere forget: relative

It is a destructive command, and the rerere cache is precious, IMO.
Therefore, I'd vote to make 'git rerere forget' without a pathspec an error.

-- Hannes