Re: [PATCH 1/2] git-add: -s flag added (silently ignore files)

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

 static struct option builtin_add_options[] = {
 	OPT__DRY_RUN(&show_only, N_("dry run")),

@@ -329,6 +329,7 @@ static struct option builtin_add_options[] = {
 	OPT_BOOLEAN( 0 , "refresh", &refresh_only, N_("don't add, only refresh the index")),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN( 0 , "ignore-errors", &ignore_add_errors, N_("just skip files which cannot be added because of errors")),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN( 0 , "ignore-missing", &ignore_missing, N_("check if - even missing - files are ignored in dry run")),
+	OPT_BOOLEAN('s', "silent-ignores", &silent_ignores, N_("don't fail when ignored files are specified on the command line (ignore them silently)")),

I'd prefer not to see a new option whose worth hasn't been proven in
the field to squat on any short-and-sweet single letter option
name and would suggest replacing that 's' with 0, at least for now.

Another option would be a -k (--keep-going) that would ignore the files,
but not silently. "git mv" has such an option already.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/