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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Doing a git add '' will add more files then expected
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 11:08:26 -0800
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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.