Re: "git add -u" broken in git 1.7.4?

SZEDER Gábor [off-list ref] writes:

_Everything_ relative to the current working directory?  I can't
imagine how would that work in practice.  Could you explain what would
the following commands do, for example, when they are relative to the
current working directory?

  $ cd t
  $ git checkout next
  $ git merge somebranch
  $ git reset HEAD^

Perhaps I stated things badly.  I was only talking about commands that
take pathspecs, and none of the above are relevant to this thread.  You
don't check out a branch with pathspec, nor merge another branch, nor
reset the index and the HEAD pointer.

I wouldn't point out that "git checkout next -- this-file" is to check out
a file out of a commit, not to check out a branch, as I think you already
know that.