Re: Git commit won't add an untracked file given on the command line

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

> There are two possible limits that would preserve your case while handling 
> Mark's case: one is to only look at untracked files at all for names that 
> don't match any tracked files, and the other (independantly) is to treat 
> names as single filenames instead of patterns for untracked files.
>
> Either of these (or both) should keep the existing behavior for using a 
> pattern on the command line as a filter for which of the tracked files to 
> commit (since any pattern of tracked files won't be the name of an 
> individual untracked file).

Perhaps.  I am starting to think that "Did you forget to 'git add'?" is
actually the best behaviour we can have ;-)