From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 19:08:26 GMT
Subject: Re: Doing a git add '' will add more files then expected
Message-ID: <xmqqh9xxy79x.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpqa93p8y9n.fsf@anie.imag.fr>

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

> 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?

That is debatable.

    cd Documentation
    git add "a"

would be equivalent to typing

    git add Documentation/"a"

so

    cd Documentation
    git add ""

would be equivalent to typing

    git add Documentation/""

And doing the same from the top-level of the working tree can be
argued to be a natural extension.