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-rw-r--r--pathspec.c15
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/pathspec.c b/pathspec.c
index ecad034063..b961f00c8c 100644
--- a/pathspec.c
+++ b/pathspec.c
@@ -522,7 +522,7 @@ void parse_pathspec(struct pathspec *pathspec,
}
pathspec->nr = n;
- ALLOC_ARRAY(pathspec->items, n);
+ ALLOC_ARRAY(pathspec->items, n + 1);
item = pathspec->items;
prefixlen = prefix ? strlen(prefix) : 0;
@@ -546,10 +546,15 @@ void parse_pathspec(struct pathspec *pathspec,
pathspec->magic |= item[i].magic;
}
- if (nr_exclude == n)
- die(_("There is nothing to exclude from by :(exclude) patterns.\n"
- "Perhaps you forgot to add either ':/' or '.' ?"));
-
+ /*
+ * If everything is an exclude pattern, add one positive pattern
+ * that matches everyting. We allocated an extra one for this.
+ */
+ if (nr_exclude == n) {
+ int plen = (!(flags & PATHSPEC_PREFER_CWD)) ? 0 : prefixlen;
+ init_pathspec_item(item + n, 0, prefix, plen, "");
+ pathspec->nr++;
+ }
if (pathspec->magic & PATHSPEC_MAXDEPTH) {
if (flags & PATHSPEC_KEEP_ORDER)