From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:36:39 GMT
Subject: Re: Git commit won't add an untracked file given on the command line
Message-ID: <7vwsezqlm0.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0811191809430.19665@iabervon.org>

Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

> 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 ;-)