Joanna Wang <jojwang@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I believe this is due to parse_short_magic() not handling the case where
> ":" is part of the file name rather than a prefix for pathspec magic.
Also, ":<path>" is a notation for the object name sitting at <path>
in the index, so giving it from the command line is ambiguous, too.
I thought that ./:<path> would be a common way to talk about such a
path to git commands?
$ date >./:now.txt
$ git add ./:now.txt
$ git rm ./:now.txt
I do not offhand remember where this is documented, but I agree that
we need to make sure that we give help to users on things like this
("how do I add a file whose name begins with a dash" is another
question I think we hear from time to time).
Thanks.
