From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: aaron smith <beingthexemplarylists@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: suppress fatal pathspec errors from "git add"?
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2010 01:44:02 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m33a2ncyj2.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100103074058.GB23031@sigill.intra.peff.net>
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 01:24:59PM -0800, aaron smith wrote:
>
> > I'm looking through the add documentation, I don't see a way to
> > suppress fatal pathspec errors? For example, if I'm adding 5 files,
> > but one of them is mis-spelled, can I have git just supress the errors
> > and add the other four?
>
> Hmm. I would have thought "git add --ignore-errors" would do what you
> want, but it only ignores errors in reading the file. If we can't stat
> it, we will always die. IMHO that is an oversight in how
> "--ignore-errors" works (why should this one particular error be treated
> as fatal, when others are not?).
I have thought that this is task for --ignore-missing / --missing-ok
option, but this option(s) does not apply to git-add / git-rm; the former
is from git-write-index, the latter form from git-write-tree.
--
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-03 9:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-31 21:24 suppress fatal pathspec errors from "git add"? aaron smith
2010-01-03 7:40 ` Jeff King
2010-01-03 8:00 ` aaron smith
2010-01-03 8:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-01-03 8:28 ` Jeff King
2010-01-03 9:44 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
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