Re: [PATCH] git-add: allow path limiting with -u

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 12:35:24PM +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote:

quoted

The fact that "add --interactive does not take any parameters" is
separate issue (which, accidentally, was adressed in the same patch).

I don't generally use add --interactive, but I imagine that
path-limiting would also make sense there. I think it would be a bit
harder to implement (and test!), since there are many calls to commands
which would need the limits. So I will leave that unless somebody really
cares about it.

I do not use -i myself that much, but due to its "interactive"
nature, I would imagine that limiting path upfront is actually
counter-productive.  During the interactive refining process you
might notice that you wanted to handle some other paths you
excluded from the command line, but you won't be able to access
them if you limit upfront.  In other words, command line limiter
would only interfere with what the interactive user would really
want to do.