IMO, if you put an empty string "" you would be implying the same as with a dot (git add . ). The important thing is that "git add" without a pathspec returns an error, as it has always done, mainly because it people tend to work without gitignoring all the files they should, and allowing such behaviour would make things harder. -- Javier Domingo Cansino -- 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