Re: 'git add' regression in git-1.7?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 15, 2010, 02:02 UTC
Message-ID: <7vljdul4tu.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100314204459.GA31564@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> In which case, I think we perhaps actively _don't_ want to complain
> about ignored globs at all.
> ...
> So if that reasoning is sound, I think we want to just leave git-add's
> behavior as it is currently (with my patch from earlier in this thread
> applied, of course). You get different error messages for "git add *.c"
> and "git add '*.c'", but that is only natural. You also get different
> _behavior_, and that is intentional.

Yeah, I think that makes sense.