Re: Is Git Add Supposed to Work Like This (git 2.50)?

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sep 9, 2025, 18:42 UTC
Message-ID: <20250909184231.GB1912898@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <109prte$j8b$1@ciao.gmane.io>

On Tue, Sep 09, 2025 at 11:33:18AM -0700, Jon Forrest wrote:

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> On 9/9/25 9:00 AM, Jon Forrest wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > If this were a big deal, which it isn't, I'd suggest a command line
> > flag that says what to do if there's an invalid file specified on
> > the command line. One setting of the flag would result in the
> > current behavior and the other setting would result in all the
> > invalid file(s) being ignored and the valid file(s) being
> > handled normally.
> 
> Nevermind. I should have checked the man page.
> The '--ignore-errors' option already does this.

Oops, I think our mails just crossed. I don't think --ignore-errors does quite what you want, though:

  $ touch foo
  $ git add foo bar
  fatal: pathspec 'bar' did not match any files
  $ git add --ignore-errors foo bar
  fatal: pathspec 'bar' did not match any files
  $ git status --porcelain
  ?? foo

-Peff