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Re: Git: "No you can't handle my root!" (?)

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Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Date
Oct 12, 2009, 18:30 UTC
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<200910122030.08179.markus.heidelberg@web.de>
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sylvain@demarque.qc.ca, 12.10.2009:
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> Git is good, Git is great! All praise the Git! :-D
> 
> What do you people think about this strange phenomena?
> 
> localhost / # git --version
> git version 1.6.4.4
> 
> localhost / # git init
> Initialized empty Git repository in //.git/
> 
> localhost / # cd etc
> localhost etc # git add X11/xorg.conf
> fatal: pathspec 'etc/X11/xorg.conf' did not match any files
"git add etc/X11/xorg.conf" works, seems to be a bug.
Markus
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  1. sylvain@demarque.qc.caOct 12, 2009
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  3. Steven NoonanOct 12, 2009
  4. Alex RiesenOct 12, 2009
  5. sylvain@demarque.qc.caOct 12, 2009
  6. Alex RiesenOct 12, 2009
  7. Jeff KingOct 12, 2009
  8. sylvain@demarque.qc.caOct 12, 2009
  9. Tony FinchOct 13, 2009
  10. Markus HeidelbergOct 12, 2009
  11. Matthieu MoyOct 12, 2009
  12. Daniele SegatoOct 12, 2009
  13. Avery PennarunOct 12, 2009
  14. sylvain@demarque.qc.caOct 12, 2009
  15. Jeff KingOct 13, 2009
  16. Daniele SegatoOct 13, 2009
  17. Jeff KingOct 13, 2009
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