Merge branch 'da/mergetool-docs'
[gitweb.git] / builtin / add.c
index 7cb6cca56dc58d02d075bf6042115f00265a9b68..7738025a2e56ea3fbd256666998040981360e5ab 100644 (file)
@@ -321,6 +321,35 @@ static int add_files(struct dir_struct *dir, int flags)
        return exit_status;
 }
 
+static void warn_pathless_add(const char *option_name, const char *short_name) {
+       /*
+        * To be consistent with "git add -p" and most Git
+        * commands, we should default to being tree-wide, but
+        * this is not the original behavior and can't be
+        * changed until users trained themselves not to type
+        * "git add -u" or "git add -A". For now, we warn and
+        * keep the old behavior. Later, this warning can be
+        * turned into a die(...), and eventually we may
+        * reallow the command with a new behavior.
+        */
+       warning(_("The behavior of 'git add %s (or %s)' with no path argument from a\n"
+                 "subdirectory of the tree will change in Git 2.0 and should not be used anymore.\n"
+                 "To add content for the whole tree, run:\n"
+                 "\n"
+                 "  git add %s :/\n"
+                 "  (or git add %s :/)\n"
+                 "\n"
+                 "To restrict the command to the current directory, run:\n"
+                 "\n"
+                 "  git add %s .\n"
+                 "  (or git add %s .)\n"
+                 "\n"
+                 "With the current Git version, the command is restricted to the current directory."),
+               option_name, short_name,
+               option_name, short_name,
+               option_name, short_name);
+}
+
 int cmd_add(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 {
        int exit_status = 0;
@@ -331,6 +360,8 @@ int cmd_add(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
        int add_new_files;
        int require_pathspec;
        char *seen = NULL;
+       const char *option_with_implicit_dot = NULL;
+       const char *short_option_with_implicit_dot = NULL;
 
        git_config(add_config, NULL);
 
@@ -350,8 +381,19 @@ int cmd_add(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
                die(_("-A and -u are mutually incompatible"));
        if (!show_only && ignore_missing)
                die(_("Option --ignore-missing can only be used together with --dry-run"));
-       if ((addremove || take_worktree_changes) && !argc) {
+       if (addremove) {
+               option_with_implicit_dot = "--all";
+               short_option_with_implicit_dot = "-A";
+       }
+       if (take_worktree_changes) {
+               option_with_implicit_dot = "--update";
+               short_option_with_implicit_dot = "-u";
+       }
+       if (option_with_implicit_dot && !argc) {
                static const char *here[2] = { ".", NULL };
+               if (prefix)
+                       warn_pathless_add(option_with_implicit_dot,
+                                         short_option_with_implicit_dot);
                argc = 1;
                argv = here;
        }