From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: adding file by absolute name -- problem Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:16:30 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Git Mailing List To: Yakov Lerner X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Apr 23 12:17:03 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HfvbT-0001VJ-7u for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:17:03 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965706AbXDWKRA (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Apr 2007 06:17:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965712AbXDWKRA (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Apr 2007 06:17:00 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:53614 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S965706AbXDWKRA (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Apr 2007 06:17:00 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 23 Apr 2007 10:16:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [138.251.11.74]) [138.251.11.74] by mail.gmx.net (mp041) with SMTP; 23 Apr 2007 12:16:58 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19HmiRWwR9HLnr7qZsgtmtRCXvU7Ri5HCj6JcNhpG w8E86Z/XI7INWi X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Yakov Lerner wrote: > When I give absolute pathname /a/b/repo/d to git add, it > mostly does not work. I get errors from git-add. Is it by design ? AFAICT it is by design. I fail to see why absolute paths should be supported, too. You are supposed to be _in_ the working directory when adding files... Ciao, Dscho