Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > + test -n "$untracked" || git ls-files --error-unmatch -- "$@" >/dev/null || exit 1 This silent "exit 1" made me scratch my head, but --error-unmatch would have already given an error message, like error: pathspec 'no such' did not match any file(s) known to git. Did you forget to 'git add'? so that would be OK.