Andreas Ericsson wrote: > Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Andy Parkins <andyparkins@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> * git-add has no output, whether it works or not >> >> "git add no-such-file" complains, and I think that is adequate. >> Now with Nico's 'add means adding contents, not path' change is >> in, we _might_ want to differentiate adding a path that was >> untracked before and updating the contents, but I think this >> again falls into "doing exactly as told" category. >> > > Well, it should really let the user know if it fails. I for one would > like to know that. I wasn't aware of the fact that it was silent even in > those situations (perhaps because I've never run across it). > > The errors that need to be reported are, afaics: > Content in 'path/to/file' is ignored according to path/to/.gitignore. This is not an error, just a warning. Sometimes user want's to add a file which is otherwise ignored (e.g. due to glob), sometimes user adds ignored file by mistake. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - 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