double occurrence of filenames on command lines

From: martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
Date: Aug 29, 2007, 08:11 UTC
Message-ID: <20070829081122.GA604@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>

Dear list,

While I can say something like

  git add foo bar foo
  (note the doubled foo)

when using git-add from a script, the following fails:

  $ git commit -m. foo foo
  error: pathspec 'foo' did not match any file(s) known to git.
  Did you forget to 'git add'?

I am bringing this up in the context of http://bugs.debian.org/439992, where debcommit.pl would duplicate a file argument under certain conditions. It's since been fixed, but I wonder whether git-commit could be made more robust in the presence of duplicate arguments? Or is this behaviour by choice?

PS: please keep 439992-quiet@bugs.debian.org on Cc.

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