On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 09:50:37PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Sebastian Pipping <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > >> I was and I can confirm the different behaviour with 1.7.4 over here: it > >> does work on the root directory of the repo as you supposed. > > > > What do you mean by "it does not work"? > > > > "git add -u" adds files under the current directory, and it always > > did. > > As it takes pathspecs (think "git add -u this-file"), it fundamentally > shouldn't be tree-wide. I think the original implementation didn't take > pathspecs and was mistakenly done as tree-wide operation, but I think it > was fixed rather quickly. Is "git add -p" broken, then? It takes pathspecs relative to the current directory, but "git add -p" without arguments operates from the root, not from the current subdirectory. -Peff -- 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