Re: Git: "No you can't handle my root!" (?)

sylvain@demarque.qc.ca writes:

localhost / # cd etc
localhost etc # git add X11/xorg.conf
fatal: pathspec 'etc/X11/xorg.conf' did not match any files

cd ..
git add etc/X11/xorg.conf

works. I don't know why the other doesn't (just tested adding from an
untracked directory in another project, it does work).

If you want to version a large directory like /, I'd advise putting
"*" in /.gitignore to make sure Git never tries to traverse the whole
filesystem.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/