[PATCH] Add --ignore-errors to git-add to allow it to skip files with read errors
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/git-add.txt | 7 ++++++-
builtin-add.c | 11 +++++++++--
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt
index e0e730b..bb4abe2 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-add.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
'git-add' [-n] [-v] [-f] [--interactive | -i] [--patch | -p] [-u] [--refresh]
- [--] <filepattern>...
+ [--ignore-errors] [--] <filepattern>...
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@@ -83,6 +83,11 @@ OPTIONS
Don't add the file(s), but only refresh their stat()
information in the index.
+\--ignore-errors::
+ If some files could not be added because of errors indexing
+ them, do not abort the operation, but continue adding the
+ others. The command shall still exit with non-zero status.
+
\--::
This option can be used to separate command-line options from
the list of files, (useful when filenames might be mistaken
diff --git a/builtin-add.c b/builtin-add.c
index 7862808..522519e 100644
--- a/builtin-add.c
+++ b/builtin-add.c
@@ -191,6 +191,7 @@ static const char ignore_error[] =
"The following paths are ignored by one of your .gitignore files:\n";
static int verbose = 0, show_only = 0, ignored_too = 0, refresh_only = 0;
+static int ignore_add_errors;
static struct option builtin_add_options[] = {
OPT__DRY_RUN(&show_only),
@@ -201,6 +202,7 @@ static struct option builtin_add_options[] = {
OPT_BOOLEAN('f', NULL, &ignored_too, "allow adding otherwise ignored files"),
OPT_BOOLEAN('u', NULL, &take_worktree_changes, "update tracked files"),
OPT_BOOLEAN( 0 , "refresh", &refresh_only, "don't add, only refresh the index"),
+ OPT_BOOLEAN( 0 , "ignore-errors", &ignore_add_errors, "just skip files which cannot be added because of errors"),
OPT_END(),
};
@@ -231,6 +233,8 @@ int cmd_add(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
if (verbose)
flags |= ADD_FILES_VERBOSE;
+ if (ignore_add_errors)
+ flags |= ADD_FILES_IGNORE_ERRORS;
exit_status = add_files_to_cache(prefix, pathspec, flags);
goto finish;
@@ -274,8 +278,11 @@ int cmd_add(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
}
for (i = 0; i < dir.nr; i++)
- if (add_file_to_cache(dir.entries[i]->name, verbose))
- die("adding files failed");
+ if (add_file_to_cache(dir.entries[i]->name, verbose)) {
+ if (!ignore_add_errors)
+ die("adding files failed");
+ exit_status = 1;
+ }
finish:
if (active_cache_changed) {
--
1.5.5.1.184.g5bee
Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>