Git won't add certain globs

Question

I'm left scratching my head on this one. So, in git on OSX, you can add files like:

git add *.java

and it will add all files that have the *.java extension. Same for .txt, json, etc. However, when I do a

git add *.xml

nothing happens. It's not specified in my gitignore, so git is reporting it as changed with a git status, but I can't seem to add with the globbing pattern.

I'm not asking HOW to recursively add files by pattern, git, (or bash?) already does that, as explained in my first example.

System:

• OSX 10.10.5
• GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin14)
• git version 2.3.8 (Apple Git-58)

Answer 1

Quote the glob so that it passed to git for processing, rather than expanded by the shell.

git add '*.xml'