Re: [PATCH] add: introduce add.ignoreerrors synonym for add.ignore-errors

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 12:36:15PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> It was a bad idea, so let's do the simple thing.  Like this?
> 
>  Documentation/config.txt |    1 +
>  builtin/add.c            |    3 ++-

Yes, looks good to me. You could potentially drop the old one from the
config:

> --- a/Documentation/config.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/config.txt
> @@ -553,6 +553,7 @@ core.sparseCheckout::
>  	Enable "sparse checkout" feature. See section "Sparse checkout" in
>  	linkgit:git-read-tree[1] for more information.
>  
> +add.ignoreErrors::
>  add.ignore-errors::
>  	Tells 'git add' to continue adding files when some files cannot be
>  	added due to indexing errors. Equivalent to the '--ignore-errors'

which may be less confusing to new users (who might ask "is there a
difference between the two?").

But I don't have a strong feeling on it, so either way:

Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>

-Peff