From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 18:15:33 GMT
Subject: Re: Doing a git add '' will add more files then expected
Message-ID: <87lhn91ynu.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <CAMDzUtyhNKdzHQK2zLEutJRcRUibhO-U6Zh0yJhrx-YxBqP5cQ@mail.gmail.com>

Guilherme <guibufolo@gmail.com> writes:

> Steps to reproduce:
> In bash (not sure this is bash specific) do:
> git add ''
> (that's to apostrophes, an empty argument)
>
> Results
> same as doing git add .
>
> Expected
> no files added or error about not finding file ''

The argument to git add is a pathspec, and the empty pathspec matches
all files.

Andreas.

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