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From: "Luke-Jr" <luke@dashjr.org>
To: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>,
	Luke Dashjr <luke-jr+git@utopios.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] port --ignore-unmatch to "git add"
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:54:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200908141754.51393.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090815063958.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com>

On Friday 14 August 2009 04:39:58 pm Nanako Shiraishi wrote:
> Second of all, if a race condition makes an "add" fail, isn't it a good
> thing? If your "add" ignored such a failure, you'd be recording an
> inconsistent or incomplete state.

If the file doesn't exist, it is no longer in the current state.

> IMHO, fixing your racy script is a much cleaner solution to your problem
> than forcing "git add" to ignore errors.

In this situation, the race condition is not a bug, it is normal operation.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-14 22:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-12 22:26 For review: git add --ignore-unmatch Luke-Jr
2009-08-12 22:57 ` Thomas Rast
2009-08-13  3:20 ` [PATCH 1/5] port --ignore-unmatch to "git add" Luke Dashjr
2009-08-13  3:20   ` [PATCH 2/5] fix "git add --ignore-errors" to ignore pathspec errors Luke Dashjr
2009-08-13  3:20     ` [PATCH 3/5] Document --ignore-unmatch in git-add.txt Luke Dashjr
2009-08-13  3:20       ` [PATCH 4/5] implement error_errno and warning_errno Luke Dashjr
2009-08-13  3:20         ` [PATCH 5/5] Convert add_file_to_index's lstat failure from a die to an error Luke Dashjr
2009-08-13 19:38     ` [PATCH 2/5] fix "git add --ignore-errors" to ignore pathspec errors Junio C Hamano
2009-08-13 20:42       ` Luke-Jr
2009-08-13 21:02       ` [PATCH] port --ignore-unmatch to "git add" Luke Dashjr
2009-08-13 21:03       ` [PATCH] Document --ignore-unmatch in git-add.txt Luke Dashjr
2009-08-13 19:36   ` [PATCH 1/5] port --ignore-unmatch to "git add" Junio C Hamano
2009-08-13 20:40     ` Luke-Jr
2009-08-13 21:51       ` Alex Riesen
2009-08-13 21:06     ` Thomas Rast
2009-08-14 19:52       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-14 20:39         ` Luke-Jr
2009-08-14 20:47           ` Luke-Jr
2009-08-14 21:39           ` Nanako Shiraishi
2009-08-14 22:54             ` Luke-Jr [this message]
2009-10-10 17:23               ` Luke-Jr

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