From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:57:27 GMT
Subject: Re: git add -u nonexistent-file
Message-ID: <20100210055727.GH28526@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7v7hqm2hs7.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 01:58:16PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > That being said, you noticed that the regular add case notes unused
> > pathspecs on the command line:
> >
> >   $ git add bogus
> >   fatal: pathspec 'bogus' did not match any files
> >
> > We could probably do the same here.
> 
> It won't be entirely trivial to do so efficiently but it shouldn't be a
> rocket surgery.
> 
> Something like this (untested of course)?

Looks like Chris gave it some basic testing. I read over the patch
itself, and it looks sane to me.

-Peff