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[Steffen Siebert <steffen.siebert@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jaap,

"git add ." works fine even in a bigger repository, if the cwd is set to 
the directory where the zim notebook is stored (in the following example 
subdir):

C:\>mkdir zimtest
C:\>cd zimtest
C:\zimtest>git init
Initialized empty Git repository in C:/zimtest/.git/
C:\zimtest>mkdir subdir
C:\zimtest>touch file1
C:\zimtest>touch subdir\file2
C:\zimtest>cd subdir
C:\zimtest\subdir>git add .
C:\zimtest\subdir>cd ..
C:\zimtest>git status
On branch master

Initial commit

Changes to be committed:
  (use "git rm --cached <file>..." to unstage)

        new file:   subdir/file2

Untracked files:
  (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)

        file1


Specifiying the path doesn't work (at least under windows):

C:\zimtest>git add c:\zimtest\subdir
fatal: c:\zimtest\subdir: 'c:\zimtest\subdir' is outside repository
C:\zimtest>cd \
C:\>git add c:\zimtest\subdir
fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

Ciao,
  Steffen

Am 24.10.2015 um 20:38 schrieb Jaap Karssenberg:
> Hi Steffen,
>
> The reason this change was made is that a number of users have their
> notebook as part of a larger git repository. By adding the folder we
> prevent making changes to the git repository outside of the notebook
> folder. This is the correct thing to do.
>
> Question is why it fails in your setup. Does the folder show up
> correctly in the command?  And if so, are there maybe special characters
> in the folder name (like umlaut, accent, ...).
>
> Regards,
>
> Jaap
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 9:59 PM, Steffen Siebert
> <steffen.siebert@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:steffen.siebert@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Starting from Zim 0.62 the version control plugin can't
>     automatically save changes using git at least under windows (didn't
>     try linux).
>
>     The offending change seems to be that instead of "git add ." now
>     "git add <dir>" (where <dir> is the value of self.notebook_dir) is
>     executed, but git refuses to do so.
>
>     I don't know why this change was made, but please revert it if possible.
>
>     I tried to update to latest git for windows (2.6.1) but it made no
>     difference.
>
>     Ciao,
>        Steffen
>
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