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....@imag.fr>
---
 builtin/add.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin/add.c b/builtin/add.c
index 0dd014e..ab1c9e8 100644
--- 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
-        * 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"
-- 
1.8.2.rc3.16.g0a33571.dirty

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