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Subject: Re: git add -u nonexistent-file
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 17:17:54 -0500
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On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> It won't be entirely trivial to do so efficiently but it shouldn't be a
> rocket surgery.
>
> Something like this (untested of course)?
>

Passes my new test and all the rest in t2200-add-update.sh and t3700-add.sh.

Hows this for a commit message:

  git add -u: give an error if pathspec unmatched

  If a pathspec is supplied to 'git add -u' and no matching path is
  matched, fail with an approriate error message and exit code.