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

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

I already do not like the possibility of potential double deprecation
myself, one to flip the default and then possibly another to drop the
support of the traditional behavour, but anything I've seen so far would
hurt the end users more than that plan.

I think promoting "git add -u ." more than a configuration option would
reduce the pain.

As a user, if I get used to typing "git add -u ." instead of "git add -u", 
I get the current behavior regardless of the version of Git, without a
warning. Later, when all the machines I word on support the tree-wide
"git add -u" (either 1.7.x + some configuration or 1.8.y), I'll use it
as a new feature.

So, a warning like

  warning: the behavior of "git add -u" without pathspec will change in
  Git 1.8.0. To keep the current behavior, use this instead:
  
      git add -u .
  
  + explanations about the config options as already discussed here

would be fine.

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Matthieu Moy
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