From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:41:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] commit: allow partial commits with relative paths
Message-ID: <7vbowfpw8c.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4E2FCAC4.7020408@drmicha.warpmail.net>

Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:

> The one reported by the OP for commit:
>
> git rm ../a
> git commit -m "blurb" ../a
> error: pathspec '../a' did not match any file(s) known to git.

That does look like a bug given that (starting from a state where that
"../a" is a tracked file that appear in the HEAD commit):

	git rm ../a
        (cd .. && git commit -m "removed a" a)

does work. For "git add ../a" after removing the path from both index and
the working tree, see my other message.