[PATCH/WIP 01/11] Introduce "check-attr --excluded" as a replacement for "add --ignore-missing"

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 [verse]
 'git check-attr' [-a | --all | attr...] [--] pathname...
 'git check-attr' --stdin [-z] [-a | --all | attr...] < <list-of-paths>
+'git check-attr' --excluded pathname...
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------

@@ -34,6 +35,9 @@ OPTIONS
 	Only meaningful with `--stdin`; paths are separated with a
 	NUL character instead of a linefeed character.
 
+--excluded::
+	Check if given paths are excluded by standard .gitignore rules.
+
 \--::
 	Interpret all preceding arguments as attributes and all following
 	arguments as path names.

@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ static const char ignore_error[] =
 N_("The following paths are ignored by one of your .gitignore files:\n");
 
 static int verbose = 0, show_only = 0, ignored_too = 0, refresh_only = 0;
-static int ignore_add_errors, addremove, intent_to_add, ignore_missing = 0;
+static int ignore_add_errors, addremove, intent_to_add;
 
 static struct option builtin_add_options[] = {
 	OPT__DRY_RUN(&show_only, "dry run"),

@@ -325,7 +325,6 @@ static struct option builtin_add_options[] = {
 	OPT_BOOLEAN('A', "all", &addremove, "add changes from all tracked and untracked files"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN( 0 , "refresh", &refresh_only, "don't add, only refresh the index"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN( 0 , "ignore-errors", &ignore_add_errors, "just skip files which cannot be added because of errors"),
-	OPT_BOOLEAN( 0 , "ignore-missing", &ignore_missing, "check if - even missing - files are ignored in dry run"),
 	OPT_END(),
 };
 

@@ -387,8 +386,6 @@ int cmd_add(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 
 	if (addremove && take_worktree_changes)
 		die(_("-A and -u are mutually incompatible"));
-	if (!show_only && ignore_missing)
-		die(_("Option --ignore-missing can only be used together with --dry-run"));
 	if ((addremove || take_worktree_changes) && !argc) {
 		static const char *here[2] = { ".", NULL };
 		argc = 1;

@@ -446,13 +443,8 @@ int cmd_add(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		for (i = 0; pathspec[i]; i++) {
 			if (!seen[i] && pathspec[i][0]
 			    && !file_exists(pathspec[i])) {
-				if (ignore_missing) {
-					int dtype = DT_UNKNOWN;
-					if (excluded(&dir, pathspec[i], &dtype))
-						dir_add_ignored(&dir, pathspec[i], strlen(pathspec[i]));
-				} else
-					die(_("pathspec '%s' did not match any files"),
-					    pathspec[i]);
+				die(_("pathspec '%s' did not match any files"),
+				    pathspec[i]);
 			}
 		}
 		free(seen);

@@ -2,11 +2,13 @@
 #include "cache.h"
 #include "attr.h"
 #include "quote.h"
+#include "dir.h"
 #include "parse-options.h"
 
 static int all_attrs;
 static int cached_attrs;
 static int stdin_paths;
+static int exclude;
 static const char * const check_attr_usage[] = {
 "git check-attr [-a | --all | attr...] [--] pathname...",
 "git check-attr --stdin [-a | --all | attr...] < <list-of-paths>",

@@ -21,6 +23,7 @@ static const struct option check_attr_options[] = {
 	OPT_BOOLEAN(0 , "stdin", &stdin_paths, "read file names from stdin"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN('z', NULL, &null_term_line,
 		"input paths are terminated by a null character"),
+	OPT_BOOLEAN(0,  "excluded", &exclude, "check exclude patterns"),
 	OPT_END()
 };
 

@@ -43,6 +46,16 @@ static void output_attr(int cnt, struct git_attr_check *check,
 	}
 }
 
+static void check_exclude(struct dir_struct *dir, const char *prefix, const char *file)
+{
+	char *full_path =
+		prefix_path(prefix, prefix ? strlen(prefix) : 0, file);
+	int dtype = DT_UNKNOWN;
+	if (excluded(dir, full_path, &dtype))
+		die("%s is ignored by one of your .gitignore files", full_path);
+	free(full_path);
+}
+
 static void check_attr(const char *prefix, int cnt,
 	struct git_attr_check *check, const char *file)
 {

@@ -103,6 +116,19 @@ int cmd_check_attr(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		die("invalid cache");
 	}
 
+	if (exclude) {
+		struct dir_struct dir;
+
+		if (stdin_paths)
+			die("--excluded cannot be used with --stdin (yet)");
+
+		memset(&dir, 0, sizeof(dir));
+		setup_standard_excludes(&dir);
+		for (i = 0; i < argc; i++)
+			check_exclude(&dir, prefix, argv[i]);
+		return 0;
+	}
+
 	if (cached_attrs)
 		git_attr_set_direction(GIT_ATTR_INDEX, NULL);
 

@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ cmd_add()
 	git ls-files --error-unmatch "$path" > /dev/null 2>&1 &&
 	die "$(eval_gettext "'\$path' already exists in the index")"
 
-	if test -z "$force" && ! git add --dry-run --ignore-missing "$path" > /dev/null 2>&1
+	if test -z "$force" && ! git check-attr --excluded "$path" > /dev/null 2>&1
 	then
 		eval_gettextln "The following path is ignored by one of your .gitignore files:
 \$path

@@ -276,23 +276,4 @@ test_expect_success 'git add --dry-run of an existing file output' "
 	test_i18ncmp expect actual
 "
 
-cat >expect.err <<\EOF
-The following paths are ignored by one of your .gitignore files:
-ignored-file
-Use -f if you really want to add them.
-fatal: no files added
-EOF
-cat >expect.out <<\EOF
-add 'track-this'
-EOF
-
-test_expect_success 'git add --dry-run --ignore-missing of non-existing file' '
-	test_must_fail git add --dry-run --ignore-missing track-this ignored-file >actual.out 2>actual.err
-'
-
-test_expect_success 'git add --dry-run --ignore-missing of non-existing file output' '
-	test_i18ncmp expect.out actual.out &&
-	test_i18ncmp expect.err actual.err
-'
-
 test_done