Re: "git add -i" with path gives "Argument list too long"

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

I seem to recall Junio noting in the past the inconsistencies in git
about what is a path and what is a pathspec. Is this one of those
inconsistencies, and would it be a positive thing to fix it?

We actually never take paths and everything we take is pathspec.  One
longstanding gripe I had around this area is there are two kinds of
pathspecs.  "diff-tree" family of pathspecs only match "leading
directories" while "dir.c" and "builtin-grep.c" pathspecs allow both
"leading directories" and "glob" pathspecs.  Teaching "diff-tree" family
to also grok globs would be a very nice thing to do, and the listing of
paths with ls-files in the sample patch you are removing is indeed a
workaround for this issue.