+static const char *option_with_implicit_dot;
+static const char *short_option_with_implicit_dot;
+
+static void warn_pathless_add(void)
+{
+ assert(option_with_implicit_dot && short_option_with_implicit_dot);
+
+ /*
+ * 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, 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"
+ "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_with_implicit_dot, short_option_with_implicit_dot,
+ option_with_implicit_dot, short_option_with_implicit_dot,
+ option_with_implicit_dot, short_option_with_implicit_dot);
+}
+