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Bug: git-add .* errors out

From
Pranit Bauva <pranit.bauva@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 11, 2016, 19:10 UTC
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Hey everyone,

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. I am currently using git 2.9.3 on Ubuntu 15.04 while he is using git 1.9.1 on Ubuntu 16.04. What might have gone wrong?

Regards, Pranit Bauva

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