Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt > index 625723e..0a1f94e 100644 > --- a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt > +++ b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt > @@ -82,6 +82,12 @@ OPTIONS > Skips files matching pattern. > Note that pattern is a shell wildcard pattern. > > +--q:: > +--quiet:: > + Only meaningful in --error-unmatch mode. Do not output an > + error message if <file> does not appear in the index. Instead > + exit with non-zero status silently. The code doesn't seem to match the claim. > diff --git a/builtin-ls-files.c b/builtin-ls-files.c > index c9a03e5..40560da 100644 > --- a/builtin-ls-files.c > +++ b/builtin-ls-files.c > @@ -547,10 +548,11 @@ int cmd_ls_files(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) > > if (ps_matched) { > int bad; > + if (!quiet) { > + bad = report_path_error(ps_matched, pathspec, prefix_offset); > + if (bad) > + fprintf(stderr, "Did you forget to 'git add'?\n"); > + } > return bad ? 1 : 0; > } You might have seen that the code returns 1 during your testing, but that is not because ps_matched[] was inspected, but because you are checking an uninitialized garbage on stack in "bad" that happened to be non-zero. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html