On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:52:24PM +0100, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > There is no need to restrict use of --ignore-missing to dry runs, > it can be useful to ignore missing files during normal operation as > well. FWIW I would be in favor of this change and I was going to submit a patch, too. My use case is different, though. I create branches that will never be merged to the mainline because they have files added that I don't want in master. The files added to these branches can vary. In my script to create the branch, I want the largest possible set of these files as the argument to 'git add' but if not all exist it's okay. I realize I can write my script to only add the files that exist but I'm lazy ;) and the --ignore-missing option would be easier. Mike -- 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