From: Andreas Schwab Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 19:34:48 GMT Subject: Re: Bug: git-add .* errors out Message-ID: <87h99m8c2v.fsf@linux-m68k.org> In-Reply-To: On Sep 12 2016, Pranit Bauva wrote: > One of my friend was trying to add files using the command `git add > .*` and got an error that "fatal: ..: '..' is outside repository" > which did seem a little obvious to me. But then I tried to reproduce > it in my machine with `git add ".*"` and it didn't error out. Probably you were running it in a subdirectory. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."