Brandon Williams <bmwill@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On 11/30, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> forgot to Cc: the author of the
>> most relevant change to the issue, d426430e6e ("pathspec: warn on
>> empty strings as pathspec", 2016-06-22).
>> ...
>
> I've been doing a bit of work trying to clean up the pathspec
> initialization code and I believe this can be fixed without
> having to add in this work around. The code which does the munging is
> always trying to prefix the pathspec regardless if there is a prefix or
> not. If instead its changed to only try and prefix the original if
> there is indeed a prefix, then it should fix the munging.
Thanks; sounds like a plan.