From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: git-add--interactive works only in top level Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:22:51 -0800 Message-ID: <7vmysr9dxg.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <058EB5A2-1EFE-43B9-9886-7272A955CE51@mit.edu> <7vwsrv9fos.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <4BC1648E-3059-4373-B388-65AD739796D8@MIT.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Reid Barton X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Dec 04 07:23:20 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IzRBe-00051f-Qr for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 04 Dec 2007 07:23:19 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751595AbXLDGW5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Dec 2007 01:22:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751592AbXLDGW5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Dec 2007 01:22:57 -0500 Received: from sceptre.pobox.com ([207.106.133.20]:47392 "EHLO sceptre.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751569AbXLDGW4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Dec 2007 01:22:56 -0500 Received: from sceptre (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by sceptre.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C0BF2F0; Tue, 4 Dec 2007 01:23:17 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-77.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by sceptre.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03F469AC01; Tue, 4 Dec 2007 01:23:14 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <4BC1648E-3059-4373-B388-65AD739796D8@MIT.EDU> (Reid Barton's message of "Tue, 4 Dec 2007 01:07:12 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Reid Barton writes: > I understand that programs such as git-add--interactive will be moved > out of the executable path not too long from now, which will also > ameliorate the situation. Honestly, there is nothing to ameliorate. We do not even document git-add--interactive on purpose. Once I saw somebody who somehow got a root account on a shared UNIX box and tryed running everything he found under /sbin one after another without understanding what he was doing. Needless to say, the box did not last too long. Somehow that "tab completion" comment reminds of him.