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

On 11:59 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

I actually do not mind too much myself if all commands that can take
pathspecs consistently defaulted to "full-tree" pathspec given no
pathspec.  But if we were to go that route, everybody should join their
voice to defend that decision when outside people say "in 1.8.0 'git grep'
run from a subdirectory shows matches from all the irrelevant parts of the
tree; with all the cruft its output is unreadable". I won't be the sole
champion of such a behaviour when I do not fully believe in it.

IFUC this shouldn't affect any (correctly written) scripts,
and so the only downside is that (when run in a subdir) commands
that are currently spelled:

	git xxx

would with this change need to be spelled:

	git xxx .

One advantage of this approach is that one's fingers would
learn the "only this dir" two char sequence very quickly.

So FWIW, I will do my best to help defend such a decision.