Re: [PATCH 1.8.0] add: make "add -u" update full tree without pathspec

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:39 AM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy [off-list ref] writes:

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There's a problem. I use git on many machines. Some will have this
config enabled, some will not (yet). Perhaps a third option, which
will print something when "git add -u" is issued as a reminder?

Such a warning would not help you on a machine that does not even have git
with Step 1 change.

What you conceive as a problem is just a reminder that any incompatible
change you plan to add will have pain involved.  On two machines, one with
a new feature and the other without the new feature, you would have to
work differently _or_ you would train yourself to use both versions in a
compatible way (e.g. when you mean tree-wide, you would cdup, and when you
mean cwd, you would explicitly say ".", from the command line).  That is
not limited to this particular feature but any incompatible change, no?

No. But I hoped it would help me somehow, or at least remind me to
update git on the machines I touch.
-- 
Duy