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Subject: Re: 'git add' option to non-interactively stage working tree changes
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On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> =
wrote:
> Hrvoje Nik=C5=A1i=C4=87 <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?