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Re: slightly confusing message

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 20, 2017, 20:19 UTC
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Leon George <leon@georgemail.eu> writes:
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> Every once in a while this:
>
> £ git add -p .
> warning: empty strings as pathspecs will be made invalid in upcoming
> releases. please use . instead if you meant to match all paths
> No changes.
>
> It seems to happen only when there are no more modified files and git
> still works wonderfully otherwise - just wanted to let you know.
This sounds vaguely familiar and indeed I think it is this one:
https://public-inbox.org/git/CAEnOLdvG=SoKFxeJ_pLmamGj_8osC+28TSg+pbFLLTr+ZLcpQA@mail.gmail.com/
which was from late last year.

I suspect that the issue may already be fixed at the tip of 'master' (aka Git 2.12-rc2).

Thanks.
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