Are these bugs?

["Jay Soffian" <jaysoffian@gmail.com>]

1. You can't use reset in a just initialized repo:

$ mkdir testrepo
$ cd testrepo
$ echo foo > foo
$ git init
$ git add .
$ git reset
fatal: Failed to resolve 'HEAD' as a valid ref.

In the real-world, I had initialized a new repository and realized I'd
staged extra files I didn't want. I was going to "git reset" then
re-add the specific files I wanted, but that obviously failed. I
worked around this by using "git rm --cached" to get rid of what I
didn't want.

I understand why "git reset" failed, but at best the error message is
confusing to a new user.

2. "git add --ignore-errors" doesn't work with ignored files:

$ mkdir testrepo
$ cd testrepo
$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/jay/testrepo/.git/
$ echo foo >> .git/info/exclude
$ echo foo > foo
$ echo bar > bar
$ git add --ignore-errors foo bar
The following paths are ignored by one of your .gitignore files:
foo
Use -f if you really want to add them.
fatal: no files added

Now you may ask "why are you specifying foo if you don't want to add
it?" In the real-world I was generating the list to "git add" with
xargs and it was quite a long list. It was easiest to filter out what
I didn't want through .git/info/exclude. But I ended up having to "...
| grep -v <stuff I don't want> | xargs git add".

So I think preferable would be: "Use -f if you really want to add them
or --ignore errors to continue anyway."

$ git version
git version 1.6.0.176.g8698c

Thoughts?

j.