Re: git add -u nonexistent-file

From: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 8, 2010, 19:12 UTC
Message-ID: <a038bef51002081112s2d552835m4b34973f797ab4f8@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100208182929.GB14355@neumann>

2010/2/8 SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>:

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> Hi,
>
>
> $ git --version
> git version 1.7.0.rc1.84.g9879
> $ git add -u nonexistent-file
> $ echo $?
> 0
>
> No error message, no error in exit status.
>
> Is it OK this way?  Why?
>
>
> Best,
> Gábor
>

Hi,

I see the same behaviour with git version 1.6.4.2.

From the man page of git-add

-u, --update
           Update only files that git already knows about, staging
modified content for
           commit and marking deleted files for removal.

So git will only look at files that are already in the repository.

It looks like in the case you've highlighted git is ignoring the extra non-option parameters on the command line. I'll let other people argue whether this is by design or omission.

'git add nonexistent-file' works as expected, exiting with an error message and non-zero exit status.