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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] port --ignore-unmatch to "git add"
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On Friday 14 August 2009 02:52:33 pm Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:
> > Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >> Chould you refresh my memory a bit?
> >>
> >> In what circumstance is "rm --ignore-unmatch" useful to begin with?
> >
> > Not sure about add --ignore-unmatch myself, but there's even an
> > example of rm --ignore-unmatch in man git-filter-branch, along the
> > lines of
> >
> >   git filter-branch --index-filter '
> >     rm --ignore-unmach some_file_that_shouldnt_be_in_history
> >   ' -- --all
>
> Ah, that makes sense.  I am not sure about "add --ignore-unmatch" myself
> either, and an example similar to the above filter-branch would not apply
> very easily (i.e. "add a file that should have been in history" would not
> need --ignore-unmatch).

The purpose of "add --ignore-unmatch" is to ignore race conditions where one 
of the files to be added has been deleted after git is executed, but before 
git scans it.