Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> writes:

> Rhys Hardwick <rhys@rhyshardwick.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> rhys@metatron:~/repo/learning.repo$ strace update-cache --add w1d4p1.c
> ...
>> open("w1d4p1.c", O_RDONLY)              = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
>> directory)
>
> The file that you're trying to add doesn't exist.

Maybe the user should be informed as soon as update-cache knows that?