Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I already do not like the possibility of potential double deprecation
> myself, one to flip the default and then possibly another to drop the
> support of the traditional behavour, but anything I've seen so far would
> hurt the end users more than that plan.
I think promoting "git add -u ." more than a configuration option would
reduce the pain.
As a user, if I get used to typing "git add -u ." instead of "git add -u",
I get the current behavior regardless of the version of Git, without a
warning. Later, when all the machines I word on support the tree-wide
"git add -u" (either 1.7.x + some configuration or 1.8.y), I'll use it
as a new feature.
So, a warning like
warning: the behavior of "git add -u" without pathspec will change in
Git 1.8.0. To keep the current behavior, use this instead:
git add -u .
+ explanations about the config options as already discussed here
would be fine.
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Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
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