git-add says 'pathspec did not match any files' for git repository in /

Hey folks,

I've been using git for keeping config files using a repository in /. In 1.7.4.1, this seems to be broken again. Committing, diffing and status work this time, but git add gives a pathspec did not match any files error when adding a file while the current working directory is not /.

This is best illustrated by an example:

root@ldap:/# git init Initialized empty Git repository in /.git/ root@ldap:/# cd etc/ root@ldap:/etc# gt add fstab bash: gt: command not found root@ldap:/etc# git add fstab fatal: pathspec 'fstab' did not match any files root@ldap:/etc# ls -l fstab -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 37 Mar 24 16:58 fstab root@ldap:/etc# cd / root@ldap:/# git add /etc/fstab root@ldap:/etc# git --version git version 1.7.4.1

All of this worked properly in 1.7.1. There was a different problem in 1.7.2, but that was fixed then (and with that fix, the above problem didn't occur). I haven't tested 1.7.3.

I don't have time to fix this right now, so I'll be sticking to 1.7.1 for now. Perhaps someone else want to look into this.

Gr.

Matthijs