From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:02:08 GMT
Subject: Re: Git: "No you can't handle my root!" (?)
Message-ID: <vpqfx9oxwpb.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20091012012826.7sffggwmm8sk0cc8@webmail.demarque.qc.ca>

sylvain@demarque.qc.ca writes:

> localhost / # cd etc
> localhost etc # git add X11/xorg.conf
> fatal: pathspec 'etc/X11/xorg.conf' did not match any files

cd ..
git add etc/X11/xorg.conf

works. I don't know why the other doesn't (just tested adding from an
untracked directory in another project, it does work).

If you want to version a large directory like /, I'd advise putting
"*" in /.gitignore to make sure Git never tries to traverse the whole
filesystem.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/