Hi, figuring out what the behavior is by guessing how a command is implemented and what are its interactions with the shell is a bit hard for the user: s/he should instead get it from the documentation. I tried to figure it out from the examples I have done, and as you see, I did not get it quite right. The issue here is that the paths must denote filenames that are present in the index or tree-ish, so, wildcards are misleading since they would instead be interpreted with respect to the working directory. A possible way to make this clear is to warn the user to quote paths that contain wildcards. Something like, e.g.: "Note that <paths> that contain wildcards must be quoted in order to denote files that belong to the index or <tree-ish>. Otherwise, they are interpreted by the shell with respect to the current directory, with a result that may depend on the shell." -Angelo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html