Re: update-cache ./test.c

On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 10:47:10AM +0200, Thomas Glanzmann wrote:

Hello,

Hi,

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update-cache seems to ignore paths containing path components
starting with a dot:

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	pi% update-cache --add ./test.c
	Ignoring path ./test.c
	pi% update-cache --add test.c
	pi%

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This is slightly annoying as 'find -type f | xargs update-cache --add'
doesn't work because of this.  ('find * -type f | ...` does.)  Instead
of ignoring the file, can we just strip off the leading "./" ?

just use a shell script to obtain that:

find -type f | sed "s#^./##" | xargs update-cache --add

This also works:

	find * -type f | xargs update-cache --add

But that wasn't quite the point :)  It makes sense that update-cache
doesn't like ambiguous path names, but it's easier for update-cache to
detect and strip "^./" than for me to remember to type sed "s#^./##"
every time.


--L