From: Luke-Jr <luke@dashjr.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:54:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] port --ignore-unmatch to "git add"
Message-ID: <200908141754.51393.luke@dashjr.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090815063958.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com>

On Friday 14 August 2009 04:39:58 pm Nanako Shiraishi wrote:
> Second of all, if a race condition makes an "add" fail, isn't it a good
> thing? If your "add" ignored such a failure, you'd be recording an
> inconsistent or incomplete state.

If the file doesn't exist, it is no longer in the current state.

> IMHO, fixing your racy script is a much cleaner solution to your problem
> than forcing "git add" to ignore errors.

In this situation, the race condition is not a bug, it is normal operation.