On Fri, 2016-10-28 at 06:03 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > If the original text were like the following, would it have been > clear enough that prevented you from sending your patch? > > * An empty string used as a pathspec element has always meant > 'everything matches', but it is too easy to write a script that > finds a path to remove in $path and run 'git rm "$paht"' by > mistake (when the user meant to give "$path"), which ends up > removing everything. This release starts warning about the > use of an empty string that is used for 'everything matches' and > asks users to use a more explicit '.' for that instead. Oops. Yes, but not sure if it really needs to be clear enough even for idiots like me. :-) Sorry.