Re: Adding nested repository with slash adds files instead of gitlink

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 05:55:44PM +0200, Kevin Daudt wrote:

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 01:19:19PM +0200, Heiko Voigt wrote:

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I just discovered that when you have a slash at the end of a nested
repository, the files contained in the repository get added instead of
the gitlink.

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I just thought I put this out there. Will have a look if I find the time
to cook up a proper testcase and investigate.

Cheers Heiko

This has been the case as far as I can remember, and is basically lore
in the #git irc channel).

This can also be reproduced by just cloning a repo inside another repo
and running `git add path/`.

Interesting and nobody complained to the mailinglist? IMO, there is no
reason 'git add path' and 'git add path/' should behave differently or
is there?

So it seems it is a very seldom operation (in my daily work it is at
least) and people just accepted it as a quirk of git.

If someone wants to look into changing this feel free, otherwise I will
have a look, but I am not sure when yet.

Cheers Heiko