Andreas Ericsson <ae@xxxxxx> writes:
> Robert Boone wrote:
>> On FreeBSD 5.5 if you use git commit -a you get this error:
>>
>> [root@robert /usr/local/test (testing)]# git commit -a
>> error: pathspec '-a' did not match any file(s) known to git.
>> Did you forget to 'git add'?
>>
>
> What does 'git --version' tell you?
Valid question, but I suspect this does not have much to do with
our recent changes.
I recall somebody (sorry I do not remember who, but it was one
of the regulars in the community --- you know who you are, and
I'd appreciate a correction if what I am going to say here is
incorrect) had encountered this issue either here on the list or
#git channel and it turned out that the parameter parsing loop:
while case $# in 0) break ;; esac
do
case "$1" in
...
-a)
all=t
shift
;;
...
esac
done
was not parsing -a away with his buggy shell. Also when he
inserted a useless reference to $1 or $@ or $# (I do not recall
which one exactly) before the loop is entered, the faulty shell
started behaving correctly.
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