From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 19:56:24 GMT
Subject: Re: git add -A fails in empty repository since 1.8.5
Message-ID: <xmqq1u1ahr13.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpqvbymarnw.fsf@anie.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:

> 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:

I know.  That is why I said "It _could_ be argued".