Re: "git add" and absolute paths

Wincent Colaiuta [off-list ref] 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...

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git