Thank you for filling out a Git bug report! Please answer the following questions to help us understand your issue. What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue) Initialised a repo and added a file or cloned a repo inside an existing repo (think dependencies). See https://github.com/gitpod-io/gitpod/issues/5675 for background. In an existing repo: $ mkdir sub_test && cd sub_test/ && git init . && touch test.txt && git add test.txt OR $ git clone https://github.com/stencila/test.git sub_test THEN $ git stash push -u What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior) Command should complete without error but ignore the directory (this is the existing behavior prior to v2.31) $ git stash push -u Ignoring path sub_test Saved working directory and index state WIP on (no branch): 94f6e3e283 Git 2.30.2 What happened instead? (Actual behavior) Command failed $ git stash push -u error: sub_test/: is a directory - add files inside instead fatal: Unable to process path sub_test/ Cannot save the untracked files What's different between what you expected and what actually happened? Command failed Anything else you want to add: It happens on all versions from v2.31 to current master. It is specifically related to this change: https://github.com/git/git/commit/6e773527b6b03976cefbb0f9571bd40dd5995e6c#diff-70525b6b89c7cac91e520085d954a68671038d218b77d22855e938ab075a68d8L1006 If this is the new expected behavior perhaps it can result in a better error message and related documentation? Please review the rest of the bug report below. You can delete any lines you don't wish to share. [System Info] git version: git version 2.33.0.610.gcefe983a32 cpu: x86_64 built from commit: cefe983a320c03d7843ac78e73bd513a27806845 sizeof-long: 8 sizeof-size_t: 8 shell-path: /bin/sh uname: Linux 5.4.0-1051-gke #54-Ubuntu SMP Thu Aug 5 18:52:13 UTC 2021 x86_64 compiler info: gnuc: 9.3 libc info: glibc: 2.31 $SHELL (typically, interactive shell): /bin/bash [Enabled Hooks]
