add: update pathless 'add [-u|-A]' warning to reflect change of plan

We originally thought the transition would need a period where "git add
[-u|-A]" without pathspec would be forbidden, but the warning is big
enough to scare people and teach them not to use it (or, if so, to
understand the consequences).

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/builtin/add.c b/builtin/add.c
index 0dd014eb96110e46e79fd6bad0bab843551fab79..ab1c9e8fb7a0f7c6f60cc78ff0f345838210459a 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin/add.c
+++ b/builtin/add.c
@@ -328,9 +328,9 @@ static void warn_pathless_add(const char *option_name, const char *short_name) {
         * 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
         * 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.
+        * keep the old behavior. Later, the behavior can be changed
+        * to tree-wide, keeping the warning for a while, and
+        * eventually we can drop the warning.

         */
        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"
         */
        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"