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Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2025 13:40:14 +0530 Message-ID: <20250907081014.17466-1-jayatheerthkulkarni2005@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.51.0 In-Reply-To: <63045080-74d6-4835-9d9c-4d3558acdbfb@gmail.com> References: <63045080-74d6-4835-9d9c-4d3558acdbfb@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To answer very shortly, "It is intended" Reason: I don't exactly know if I am pointing to the right code lines But if you dig into builtin/add.c you will find these lines /* * Check the "pathspec '%s' did not match any files" block * below before enabling new magic. */ parse_pathspec(&pathspec, 0, PATHSPEC_PREFER_FULL | PATHSPEC_SYMLINK_LEADING_PATH, prefix, argv); If you read the comment you will know this is already intented (the behaviour which you described) - Jayatheerth