@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ def raise_exc(e):
                 #   whose name contains wildcard characters.
                 if abs_path not in resolved_paths:
                     for f in self._iter_expand_paths(glob.glob(abs_path)):
-                        yield f.replace(rs, '')
+                        yield str(f).replace(rs, '')
                     continue
             # END glob handling
             try:
@@ -635,7 +635,7 @@ def _store_path(self, filepath: PathLike, fprogress: Callable) -> BaseIndexEntry
     @git_working_dir
     def _entries_for_paths(self, paths: List[str], path_rewriter: Callable, fprogress: Callable,
                            entries: List[BaseIndexEntry]) -> List[BaseIndexEntry]:
-        entries_added = []  # type: List[BaseIndexEntry]
+        entries_added: List[BaseIndexEntry] = []
         if path_rewriter:
             for path in paths:
                 if osp.isabs(path):
@@ -769,7 +769,7 @@ def add(self, items: Sequence[Union[PathLike, Blob, BaseIndexEntry, Submodule]],
         # automatically
         # paths can be git-added, for everything else we use git-update-index
         paths, entries = self._preprocess_add_items(items)
-        entries_added = []
+        entries_added: List[BaseIndexEntry] = []
         # This code needs a working tree, therefore we try not to run it unless required.
         # That way, we are OK on a bare repository as well.
         # If there are no paths, the rewriter has nothing to do either
 
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 
 from typing import (Any, Callable)
 
-from git.types import PathLike
+from git.types import PathLike, _T
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -88,12 +88,12 @@ def check_default_index(self, *args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> Any:
     return check_default_index
 
 
-def git_working_dir(func: Callable[..., Any]) -> Callable[..., None]:
+def git_working_dir(func: Callable[..., _T]) -> Callable[..., _T]:
     """Decorator which changes the current working dir to the one of the git
     repository in order to assure relative paths are handled correctly"""
 
     @wraps(func)
-    def set_git_working_dir(self, *args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> None:
+    def set_git_working_dir(self, *args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> _T:
         cur_wd = os.getcwd()
         os.chdir(self.repo.working_tree_dir)
         try:
 
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
     # from git.refs import SymbolicReference
 
 TBD = Any
+_T = TypeVar('_T')
 
 Tree_ish = Union['Commit', 'Tree']
 Commit_ish = Union['Commit', 'TagObject', 'Blob', 'Tree']