tags 476595 + upstream wontfix
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Hi Guido,
Guido Günther wrote:
> for #476347 it'd be nice to have a:
> git-add --allow-empty <filepattern>
"git add" is for humans and its behavior and output are potential to
change as our understanding of humans improves; "git update-index" is
for machines, is dead simple, and should do better for this task, I
suspect.
It works like this:
1. Come up with a list of paths. For example,
git ls-files -c -o -- <pattern>
lists all files matching <pattern>.
git ls-files -o --exclude-standard -- <pattern>
lists untracked files not excluded by .gitignore and matching
<pattern>.
2. Feed the paths to update-index. For example,
git ls-files -c -o -- <pattern> |
git update-index --verbose --add --stdin
adds all paths matching <pattern> just like "git add <pattern>" would,
except it still works if some files matching <pattern> would have been
excluded by .gitignore and does not require a special case for the
empty list.
That said, thanks for reporting and please feel free to bring this up
on the git list[1] if update-index does not meet your needs.
[1] [email protected] (no subscription needed --- the
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