From: Matthieu Moy Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 18:04:58 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] git-add: -s flag added (silently ignore files) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vipaucbur.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Junio C Hamano writes: >> static struct option builtin_add_options[] = { >> OPT__DRY_RUN(&show_only, N_("dry run")), >> @@ -329,6 +329,7 @@ static struct option builtin_add_options[] = { >> OPT_BOOLEAN( 0 , "refresh", &refresh_only, N_("don't add, only refresh the index")), >> OPT_BOOLEAN( 0 , "ignore-errors", &ignore_add_errors, N_("just skip files which cannot be added because of errors")), >> OPT_BOOLEAN( 0 , "ignore-missing", &ignore_missing, N_("check if - even missing - files are ignored in dry run")), >> + OPT_BOOLEAN('s', "silent-ignores", &silent_ignores, N_("don't fail when ignored files are specified on the command line (ignore them silently)")), > > I'd prefer not to see a new option whose worth hasn't been proven in > the field to squat on any short-and-sweet single letter option > name and would suggest replacing that 's' with 0, at least for now. Another option would be a -k (--keep-going) that would ignore the files, but not silently. "git mv" has such an option already. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/