Re: Bug: git-add .* errors out

On Sep 12 2016, Pranit Bauva [off-list ref] wrote:

One of my friend was trying to add files using the command `git add
.*` and got an error that "fatal: ..: '..' is outside repository"
which did seem a little obvious to me. But then I tried to reproduce
it in my machine with `git add ".*"` and it didn't error out.

Probably you were running it in a subdirectory.

Andreas.

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