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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 3"""
+ date="2015-03-27T19:25:26Z"
+ content="""
+The shell does not expand *.jpg to match files inside subdirectories.
+
+I suggest you read up on how shell wildcards work, and how to use them
+properly.
+
+There is a bit of a bug here, which is that the shell, when *.jpg does not
+expand to anything, passes the "*.jpg" parameter to git-annex un-expanded,
+which then passes it off to git ls-files, which then unexpectedly expands
+it to recursively match jpegs in subirectories. Only then does git-annex
+try to add a "*.jpg" file, and when it doesn't exist, it exits with an
+error, leaving the files it did add unstaged in git.
+
+To get out of that situation, just re-run git-annex add and actually list
+the files or directories to add, rather than a wildcard that won't expand
+to them..
+
+I'll see if I can fix the behavior here, it should just fail when given an
+un-expanded wildcard.
+"""]]