Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: [jc: sometimes but not always your messages have looooooooooooooong lines. please line-wrap for readability. I learned to type W Q so often I do not complain but other people would find them irritating.] > The default behavior for 'git-grep' has already been discussed in > length, and I don't think it is likely to change. See > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/111519/focus=111717 Interesting. The first message in that thread lists things we have scheduled for 1.7.0 but it has another item. It is an off-topic for the thread, but we might want to resurrect the "core.quotepath defaults to false" proposal, before it gets too late for 1.7.0. As to "grep", I am open to the proposal to make git commands consistent by letting them operate on everything when no path argument is given, if grep is really the single odd-man out remaining after changing the "add -u" and "add -A" to work on the whole tree from subdirectories when given no paths. > The original design for the other two in your list was to be a whole > tree operation. This commit broke it. > > 2ed2c22 "git-add -u paths... now works from subdirectory". > ... > I think it is a good idea to fix this as an old regression in the maint > branch. You don't have to introduce "git add -a". In fact the -a option > was explicitly rejected when "git add -A" option was added with this > commit. Geez, you are good at digging things up. It is very tempting to follow the suggestion above, but I suspect that, even though it may be a regression from historical point of view, some people who are used to the current behaviour may look at the corrected one as a regression. We've had the change by 2ed2c22 for a long time. I dunno. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html