Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Because typing paths does not make my intent perfectly clear. I'm not able to understand this. Doesn't your prompt tell you which directory you're in, and if you're in a git repository? When you type out paths, you know what is inside and what is outside your repository. By extension, you know when --no-index is implied and when it isn't. Can you explain what your problem is? -- 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