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From: "Hrvoje Nikšić" <hniksic@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 'git add' option to non-interactively stage working tree changes
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 21:03:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=iwOGv3PzrRcVGDwwoTXmJ4CuC11vuYsjn4xxV@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2aajcbiei.fsf@igel.home>

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> Hrvoje Nikšić <hniksic@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Specifying the root may seem innocuous, but it is inconsistent with
>> "git diff" and "git commit [-a]", which don't care where in the tree
>> you are.
>
> You can always use "$(git rev-parse --show-cdup)." as the root.

Thanks for the tip. I'll note that this is not exactly easy to
discover, though, and it's quite some typing. Since git add -p and git
add -i seem capable of determining the root themselves, maybe there
should be a way to do the same for -u? Or even make it the default?

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-07 20:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-07 18:56 'git add' option to non-interactively stage working tree changes Hrvoje Nikšić
2011-01-07 19:52 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-01-07 20:03   ` Hrvoje Nikšić [this message]
2011-01-07 20:44     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-07 23:50       ` Jakub Narebski

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