Re: Git commit won't add an untracked file given on the command line

Daniel Barkalow [off-list ref] writes:

There are two possible limits that would preserve your case while handling 
Mark's case: one is to only look at untracked files at all for names that 
don't match any tracked files, and the other (independantly) is to treat 
names as single filenames instead of patterns for untracked files.

Either of these (or both) should keep the existing behavior for using a 
pattern on the command line as a filter for which of the tracked files to 
commit (since any pattern of tracked files won't be the name of an 
individual untracked file).

Perhaps.  I am starting to think that "Did you forget to 'git add'?" is
actually the best behaviour we can have ;-)