On Feb 6, 2011, at 10:14 PM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Nguyán ThÃi Ngác Duy <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
The only reason I'm not routinely bitten by this is that I'm generally
always at the root of the tree. But I certainly *think* about it as
an operation that's tree-wide, not local. If I meant to limit the
scope, I'd specify a path.
Josh
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