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Re: Doing a git add '' will add more files then expected

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date
Nov 17, 2014, 18:42 UTC
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Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
> The argument to git add is a pathspec, and the empty pathspec matches
> all files.
Err, why does the empty pathspec match all files? Isn't that a bug?
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Matthieu Moy
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