From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 23:49:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add: don't complain when adding empty project root
Message-ID: <CACsJy8ApEBq+G+swpBPPJwL1E94x-P+e+V_jYknG+rXybLxPgQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <52BA0110.4050003@web.de>

On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 4:48 AM, Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> wrote:
> On 2013-12-24 00.46, Duy Nguyen wrote:
>>
> [snip]
>> We don't complain about adding an empty directory before or after this patch.
> Ok, thanks for the explanation.
>
> I think that
> https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-add.html
> could deserve an update.
>
> My understanding is that <filepattern> is related to $GIT_DIR,
> but "." is the current directory.
>
> I will be happy to write a patch,
> (or to review one, whatever comes first)
> /Torsten

filepattern is related to current directory too (e.g. "*.sh" from "t"
won't cover git-rebase.sh, ":/*.sh" does). Yes a patch to update
git-add.txt to use the term "pathspec" instead of "filepattern" would
be nice. A pointer to pathspec glossary could help discover
case-insensitive matching, negative matching..
-- 
Duy