Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> writes:

> Regarding "git add --refresh" (no other arguments), it would say
> "Nothing specified, nothing added.", and that is unrelated to the
> breakage reported and fixed in this thread, I think.  It is the same
> message "git add" (no other arguments) gives, which I think is a
> mistake.  "git add --refresh" is like "git add -u" in that the
> affected paths are determined by the index, and running these
> commands while your index is still empty can just be a silent no-op.

Something like this...

 builtin/add.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin/add.c b/builtin/add.c
index d7e3e44..84e8a3e 100644
--- a/builtin/add.c
+++ b/builtin/add.c
@@ -483,8 +483,10 @@ int cmd_add(int argc, const char **argv, const char 
*prefix)
                 (implicit_dot ? ADD_CACHE_IMPLICIT_DOT : 0);
 
        if (require_pathspec && argc == 0) {
-               fprintf(stderr, _("Nothing specified, nothing added.\n"));
-               fprintf(stderr, _("Maybe you wanted to say 'git add .'?\n"));
+               if (!refresh_only) {
+                       fprintf(stderr, _("Nothing specified, nothing 
added.\n"));
+                       fprintf(stderr, _("Maybe you wanted to say 'git add 
.'?\n"));
+               }
                return 0;
        }
 
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