Re: [BUG] 'add -u' doesn't work from untracked subdir

On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 10:28:08AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

But notice that the above is qualified with "personally".  An alternative
would be to declare that in 1.8.0, all commands run without path argument
will work on the whole tree and you have to give an explicit '.' when you
want to limit their effect to the cwd.

That's fine by me.

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Please also see:

    Message-ID: [ref] ($gmane/127795)

think about the three questions there, and help us move the discussion
forward.

The patch is my way of saying that I'm not just whining, but that I'm
willing to put some effort into getting this done. I am aware of the issues
you raised in the above message and I was hoping that my patch would help us
as a starting point to move the discussion forward.

The first part of the message has some comments related to your patch, by
the way.

I can only guess that you mean the "sane way for script writers to defeat
the configuration without much pain" part. But I'm not sure how that's a
problem. If you want the script to continue to work as before you either
configure "workdir scope", or you add a '.' to the affected commands.

Clemens