On 10/19/2012 03:21 PM, Yann Dirson wrote: > As the examples in git-subtree.txt show, the synopsis in the same file should > surely get a patch along the lines of: > > -'git subtree' add -P <prefix> <commit> > +'git subtree' add -P <prefix> <repository> <commit> > > Failure to specify the repository (by just specifying a local commit) fails with > the cryptic: > > warning: read-tree: emptying the index with no arguments is deprecated; use --empty > fatal: just how do you expect me to merge 0 trees? > > > Furthermore, the doc paragraph for add, aside from mentionning <repository>, also > mentions a <refspec> which the synopsis does not show either. > > > As a sidenote it someone wants to do some maintainance, using "." as repository when > the branch to subtree-add is already locally available does not work well either > (fails with "could not find ref myremote/myhead"). > The version of subtree in contrib is rather out-dated unfortunately. I've collected a bunch of patches in https://github.com/helmo/git/tree/subtree-updates The documentation issue is also fixed in there. -- Met vriendelijke groet / Regards, Herman van Rink Initfour websolutions -- 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