Re: Git commit won't add an untracked file given on the command line
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Date
- Nov 20, 2008, 00:36 UTC
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Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:
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> There are two possible limits that would preserve your case while handling > Mark's case: one is to only look at untracked files at all for names that > don't match any tracked files, and the other (independantly) is to treat > names as single filenames instead of patterns for untracked files. > > Either of these (or both) should keep the existing behavior for using a > pattern on the command line as a filter for which of the tracked files to > commit (since any pattern of tracked files won't be the name of an > individual untracked file).
Perhaps. I am starting to think that "Did you forget to 'git add'?" is actually the best behaviour we can have ;-)