Re: Adding nested repository with slash adds files instead of gitlink

From: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Date: Jun 19, 2018, 10:27 UTC
Message-ID: <20180619102717.GB10085@book.hvoigt.net>
In-Reply-To: <20180618155544.GB6958@alpha>

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 05:55:44PM +0200, Kevin Daudt wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 01:19:19PM +0200, Heiko Voigt wrote:
> > I just discovered that when you have a slash at the end of a nested
> > repository, the files contained in the repository get added instead of
> > the gitlink.

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> > I just thought I put this out there. Will have a look if I find the time
> > to cook up a proper testcase and investigate.
> > 
> > Cheers Heiko
> 
> This has been the case as far as I can remember, and is basically lore
> in the #git irc channel).
> 
> This can also be reproduced by just cloning a repo inside another repo
> and running `git add path/`.

Interesting and nobody complained to the mailinglist? IMO, there is no reason 'git add path' and 'git add path/' should behave differently or is there?

So it seems it is a very seldom operation (in my daily work it is at least) and people just accepted it as a quirk of git.

If someone wants to look into changing this feel free, otherwise I will have a look, but I am not sure when yet.

Cheers Heiko