On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 05:06:32PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > >> Unfortunately > >> we do not have a good way to let people who have already heard > >> about the transition to squelch it yet. > > > > How about an advice.addWithoutPath config variable to disable it? > > I don't think it is worth it; I'd rather see :/ magic implemented earlier. > > Another possibility is to error out on "git add -u" without pathspec in a > subdirectory as an error in 1.8.0, and then make it full-tree in 1.8.X in > a distant future, but that wouldn't be as pleasant. I thought we cared about giving fans of the current behavior a way to keep it (without having to use additional syntax). Script-writers already need to use "./" to be portable to old versions of git, so it's not hurting them (unless you want to count N years into the future, when we can discount such old versions). -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