Re: [PATCH 1.8.0] add: make "add -u" update full tree without pathspec

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On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Nguyán ThÃi Ngác Duy Â<pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> When -u was introduced in dfdac5d (git-add -u: match the index with
>> working tree., 2007-04-20), "add -u" (without pathspec) added
>> everything. Shortly after, 2ed2c22 (git-add -u paths... now works from
>> subdirectory, 2007-08-16) broke it while fixing something related.
>
> As long as the command takes pathspecs, it should never be tree-wide.
> Making it tree-wide when there is no pathspec is even worse.

git log -p and diff family all can take pathspecs. All default to
tree-wide without pathspecs. This is what I'm doing all the time:

git diff
# checking, ok, looks good
git add -u
# ack, need to come to root dir first
-- 
Duy
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