From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:04:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add --ignore-notfound option to exit with zero status when no files are removed.
Message-ID: <20070416090426.GA2549@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7v7iscvgx1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 01:53:46AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> >> > +\--ignore-notfound::
> >> > +	Exit with a zero status even if no files matched.
> >> > +
> >> ls-files has --error-unmatch so we may want to make the name
> >> consistent by saying --ignore-unmatch?  I particularly do not
> >> care about the minute naming issues _right_ _now_, but we might
> >> regret it in the long run.
> >
> > Isn't this quite similar to the '-k' option to git-mv?
> 
> Heh, I never use 'git-mv' and 'git-rm' myself, so I did not know
> about that option, but from the Documentation/git-mv.txt, it
> sounds similar.  What does it stand for, I wonder?

As you are so fond of telling everyone else, use git-blame to find out. :)

Looks like '-k' got added in the move from git-rename to git-mv. Josef,
can you shed any light on the choice of '-k'?

-Peff