"Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> > > When passing a list of pathspecs to, say, `git add`, we need to be > careful to use the original form, not the parsed form of the pathspecs. > > This makes a difference e.g. when calling > > git stash -- ':(glob)**/*.txt' > > where the original form includes the `:(glob)` prefix while the parsed > form does not. > > However, in the built-in `git stash`, we passed the parsed (i.e. > incorrect) form, and `git add` would fail with the error message: > > fatal: pathspec '**/*.txt' did not match any files > > at the stage where `git stash` drops the changes from the worktree, even > if `refs/stash` has been actually updated successfully. > > This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2037 > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> > --- > builtin/stash.c | 5 +++-- > t/t3905-stash-include-untracked.sh | 6 ++++++ > 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/builtin/stash.c b/builtin/stash.c > index 1bfa24030c..2f29d037c8 100644 > --- a/builtin/stash.c > +++ b/builtin/stash.c > @@ -830,7 +830,7 @@ static void add_pathspecs(struct argv_array *args, > int i; > > for (i = 0; i < ps.nr; i++) > - argv_array_push(args, ps.items[i].match); > + argv_array_push(args, ps.items[i].original); > } Yup. I think Thomas and Peff were also looking at the vicinity of this code wrt the pass-by-value-ness of ps parameter. Their fix need to also come on top of this (or combined together).