Re: Do "git add" as a builtin

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

By "not seeing the point", do you mean you do not agree with what bba319b5 and 45e48120 tried to do to help users?

        $ git add no-such-path-in-the-tree
        $ git add 'this-pattern-matches-nobody*'

More realistically:

	$ git add Documentaiton		;# misspelled

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(bba319b5) When you say "git commit Documentaiton" to make partial commit for the files only in that directory, we did not detect that as a misspelled pathname and attempted to commit index without change. If nothing matched, there is no harm done, but if the index gets modified otherwise by having another valid pathspec or after an explicit update-index, a user will not notice without paying attention to the "git status" preview.

This introduces --error-unmatch option to ls-files, and uses it to detect this common user error.

(45e48120) This is in the same spirit as an earlier patch for git-commit. It does an extra ls-files to avoid complaining when a fully tracked directory name is given on the command line (otherwise --others restriction would say the pathspec does not match).