Re: [PATCH] t3703, t4208: add test cases for magic pathspec

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy [off-list ref] writes:

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Shouldn't

       $ git anycmd :

be equivalent to

       $ (cd $(git rev-parse --show-cdup)/. && git anycmd)

for any command?  I doubt this test is expecting the right outcome.
Shouldn't it result in "Nothing specified, nothing added."?

It's gray area.

I do not see anything gray in it.

"git add :" in subdirectory is simply broken because we have used "No
remaining command line argument means no pathspec" when deciding to stop
and say "Nothing specified, nothing added".  That was a sensible
assumption back then, but it needs to be updated to take the new "The
remaining command line argument may say that there is no pathspec" reality
into account.