Error with Repo.add: pathspec '*' did not match any files.

[jokeofweek]

Hello,

I am currently running an application in a folder with a subfolder called _docs, which is a git repository. I have ./_docs/.git open as a Repo with a file called test.md in ./_docs. I'm trying to run the following code from the current working directory (.):

new git.Repo('./_docs/.git', {}, function(err, repo) {
    repo.add('test.md', function(err){
        console.log(err);
    });
});

I get the following error:

Error: Command failed: fatal: pathspec 'test.md' did not match any files

This is the git command that gets run:

git --git-dir="....\_docs\.git" add "test.md"

I believe that you need to add the --work-tree parameter when doing git add using --git-dir (see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1386291/git-git-dir-not-working-as-expected for more info)., but there is currently no way to pass this argument. There's no way to pass in the --work-tree argument using Git.prototype.call_git. A hack would be to pass in the --work-tree though the command arg but you replace all underscores with dashes.

Any chance there is another way to do this?

[gierschv]

Hi,

An another solution could be to use the JS implementation from GitIndex (lib/git/git_index) and add to the index a file from a buffer, but I think it's more designed for a bare repository and your modifications looks legit.

Vincent

[jokeofweek]

This can be fixed with Pull Request #32 by passing --work-tree as an argument to the git binary.