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

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > 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
> 
> The option is described like so:
> 
>     --[no-]ignore-errors  just skip files which cannot be added because of errors
> 
> I think "because of errors" is meant handle a sequence more like this:
> 
>     $ date >foo ; date >bar
>     $ chmod a= foo
>     $ git add --ignore-errors foo bar
>     $ git diff --cached --name-only
>     bar
>