From: Noam Postavsky Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2015 16:55:47 GMT Subject: Re: git --literal-pathspecs add -u says "fatal: pathspec ':/' did not match any files" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <562B2FB2.4080604@gmail.com> On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 3:13 AM, Victor Leschuk wrote: > The problem is that in the absence of explicit argument we set the list of > files to special path ":/" which means repo root: > And after that we treat it as regular file Aha. > Maybe it'll make sense to modify file_exists() to treat ":/" specially. I'm not sure how this would translate into code, but it would make more sense to me if we undo the effect of --literal-pathspecs when setting arguments to ":/". After all, it's obviously not meant to be a literal file so it shouldn't treated as one (also this way still allows a user to pass --literal-pathspecs with ":/" to add an actual directory named ":" (not that anyone should ever want that)).