On 2013-12-24 00.46, Duy Nguyen wrote: > [snip] > We don't complain about adding an empty directory before or after this patch. Ok, thanks for the explanation. I think that https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-add.html could deserve an update. My understanding is that <filepattern> is related to $GIT_DIR, but "." is the current directory. I will be happy to write a patch, (or to review one, whatever comes first) /Torsten -- 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