Re: git add -A fails in empty repository since 1.8.5

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Dec 18, 2013, 19:24 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqvbymarnw.fsf@anie.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqioumhtvp.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> It could be argued that a "git add [<any option>] .", with an
> explicit "." given by the end-user, that is run in an empty
> directory may be an error worth reporting.

But what we have right now is really weird:

# setup repo with one empty dir: $ rm -fr test $ git init test Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/test/.git/ $ cd test $ mkdir foo

$ git add . fatal: pathspec '.' did not match any files

=> The one we're discussing.

$ git add foo

=> No error when an empty directory other than . is given.

$ cd foo $ git add .

=> No error either for "git add ." when not at the root of the repo.

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Matthieu Moy
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