Re: git add -u nonexistent-file

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

It won't be entirely trivial to do so efficiently but it shouldn't be a
rocket surgery.

Something like this (untested of course)?

Passes my new test and all the rest in t2200-add-update.sh and t3700-add.sh.

Hows this for a commit message:

  git add -u: give an error if pathspec unmatched

  If a pathspec is supplied to 'git add -u' and no matching path is
  matched, fail with an approriate error message and exit code.