On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hrvoje NikÅiÄ <hniksic@xxxxxxxxx> 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? -- 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