From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:37:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] commit: allow partial commits with relative paths
Message-ID: <7vfwlrpwea.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4E2FCAC4.7020408@drmicha.warpmail.net>

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

> git rm ../a
> git add ../a
> fatal: pathspec 'a' did not match any files

If you didn't have that ../a from the beginning, wouldn't you get the same
error message? Or instead of "git add ../a", you did "(cd .. && git add a)"
what message do (and more importantly "should") you get?

I think it would be an improvement if we said "../a" in the message, but
otherwise I agree with you that there is no bug here.

A side note. If this didn't work:

    $ git rm --cached ../a
    $ git add ../a

I would suspect that would be a bug (this however seems to work).