On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote: > Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> writes: > >> Matthieu Moy <matthieu....@grenoble-inp.fr> writes: >> >>> "git add -u" is one of the only exceptions (with "git grep"). I consider >>> this as a bug, and think this should be changed. This has been discussed >>> several times here, but no one took the time to actually do the change > > - As we have the "from the root" magic pathspec these days, > requiring "git add -u :/" when the user really means to add > everything is no longer too much of a burden, but if we suddenly > changed "git add -u" to mean "git add -u .", that is too much of > a change in the semantics.
And I think someone (Jeff?) pointed out that that last part is even more true for "git clean", which also currently works on the current directory if not told otherwise. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
