Re: "git add" and absolute paths

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Wincent Colaiuta <win@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I was somewhat surprised the other day to see that you can't pass
> absolute paths to "git add":
>
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> 
> I understand that you can't add arbitrary paths outside of your
> worktree, but if the absolute path specifies something _inside_ your
> worktree then it seems that this is either a bug or a "usability
> shortcoming" if you prefer to avoid the term "bug".

If I remember correctly this issue was discussed on git mailing list,
and I guess there were even some patches implementing that, but I
don't know what happened iwth them: freeze persiod, troubles with
Cygwin (MS Windows), or what...

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
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