Re: [PATCH] fix git add :!x exiting with error when x is in .gitignore

> This case is actually already handled by the pathspec itself.
>
>
> From pathspec.c:
>> void parse_pathspec(struct pathspec *pathspec,
>> 		    unsigned magic_mask, unsigned flags,
>> 		    const char *prefix, const char **argv)
>> {
>> 	[...]
>> 	/*
>> 	 * If everything is an exclude pattern, add one positive pattern
>> 	 * that matches everything. We allocated an extra one for this.
>> 	 */
>> 	if (nr_exclude == n) {
>> 		int plen = (!(flags & PATHSPEC_PREFER_CWD)) ? 0 : prefixlen;
>> 		init_pathspec_item(item + n, 0, prefix, plen, ".");
>> 		pathspec->nr++;
>> 	}