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

Eric Raible [off-list ref] writes:

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 .

If xxx is grep (or "add -u") and the script is running the former form,
you already broke it, and I think a script that expects "git grep" to
limit its scope to the current directory is "correctly written".  That is
how these commands were defined and documented to work.

"Adding SP plus dot is just a two-byte change" is not a sensible reason to
break people's scripts.  We need to be honest and say "sorry, but with
this release we are breaking your scripts.  Let us convince you that the
benefit of the resulting consistency outweighs that cost".