From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Reid Barton <rwbarton@MIT.EDU>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-add--interactive works only in top level
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:44:51 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vwsrv9fos.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <058EB5A2-1EFE-43B9-9886-7272A955CE51@mit.edu> (Reid Barton's message of "Mon, 3 Dec 2007 22:19:32 -0500")
Reid Barton <rwbarton@MIT.EDU> writes:
> When the working directory is not the top of the working tree, git-
> add--interactive fails silently and confusingly.
Sheesh, you got me worried.
This is a non issue; git-add--interactive is not for direct end user
consumption. It relies on being run from git-add wrapper, which does
cdup to the top of the work tree before launching add--interactive
helper.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-04 5:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-04 3:19 git-add--interactive works only in top level Reid Barton
2007-12-04 5:44 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-12-04 6:07 ` Reid Barton
2007-12-04 6:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-04 10:37 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-12-04 11:48 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-12-04 11:56 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-12-04 12:21 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-12-04 17:45 ` Junio C Hamano
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