On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, David Greaves wrote:
In doing this I noticed a couple of points: * update-cache won't accept ./file or fred/./file
The comment in update-cache.c reads: /* * We fundamentally don't like some paths: we don't want * dot or dot-dot anywhere, and in fact, we don't even want * any other dot-files (.git or anything else). They * are hidden, for chist sake. * * Also, we don't want double slashes or slashes at the * end that can make pathnames ambiguous. */
It could be argued that './' is a special case... but at the moment this is definitely a designed 'feature' not a 'bug'.
--scott
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