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

From: Sebastian Pipping <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:49:55 +0100

On 02/07/11 00:19, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
> And others are bitten by it every once in a while.  Yes, myself
> included ;)  Maybe this is also one of those things that might be
> reconsidered for 1.8.0?
> 
>>> Could it be it has been working from anywhere before?
>>
>> Can you post an example where Git 1.7.4 and a previous version behave
>> differently? Up to now, I see difference between your expectations and
>> what Git does, but not between new and old versions.
> 
> git add -u was tree-wide when it was introduced in dfdac5d (git-add
> -u: match the index with working tree., 2007-04-20), but 2ed2c22
> (git-add -u paths... now works from subdirectory, 2007-08-16) broke it
> while fixing something related.

So my memory didn't fool me.  Thanks for digging this out.

Can we have tree-wide "git add -u" back, please?

Thanks,

Sebastian