Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add --ignore-notfound option to exit with zero status when no files are removed.
- From
- Josef Weidendorfer <josef.weidendorfer@gmx.de>
- Date
- Apr 16, 2007, 18:29 UTC
- Message-ID
- <200704162029.41427.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
- In-Reply-To
- <20070416090426.GA2549@coredump.intra.peff.net>
On Monday 16 April 2007, you wrote:
Show 20 quoted lines
> 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'?
That is similiar to "-k" option to "make", synonym for "--keep-going". I thought this was quite natural; at least I am used to this option for "make".
Josef