Re: [PATCH 0/2] git-add: -s flag (silently ignore files)
Olaf Klischat writes: > ... scenarios where you want to feed the file list into git add > via find or other external commands (`find | xargs git add'), > which you wouldn't want to carefully tune... Can you explain this kind of thing in the actual commit log message when you reroll (if you will do so)? I also cannot help but find that `scenario` an artificially made-up one. The description did not feel convincing enough, even if it were in the proposed commit log message, to justify such an option. A few questions. - What were the kind of patterns useful in the above `find` in your real life example? - The use of `find` means giving pathspecs from the command line, e.g. "git add foo/ \*.rb", wouldn't have been sufficient. Are there something we could improve this in more direct way? - Why was it too cumbersome to add the idiomatic \( -name '*.o' -o -name '*~' \) -prune -o or something like that in front of whatever patterns were used? - Perhaps a filter that takes a list of paths and emits only the ignored paths (or only the unignored paths) would be a more generic approach? You could feed the output from `find` to such a filter, and then drive not just "git add" but other commands that take paths if you solved it that way. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
[PATCH 0/2] git-add: -s flag (silently ignore files)
This adds an -s|--silent-ignore option to git-add, which causes ignored files that were specified explicitly on the command line to be silently ignored, rather than abandoning the command. I found this useful for scenarios where you want to feed the file list into git add via find or other external commands (`find | xargs git add'), which you wouldn't want to carefully tune so they don't output any ignored files. git ls-files doesn't have find's filtering capabilities, and using it in place of find would kind of violate "one job one tool" anyway. I'm not really a git guru, so maybe I'm missing something, and I'm unsure how useful this new option is for a general audience. OTOH the patch is trivial. Check it out. The update applies on top of "master" (261b5119). Olaf Klischat (2): git-add: -s flag added (silently ignore files) git-add: -s flag: documentation added Documentation/git-add.txt | 15 +++ builtin/add.c | 14 +++--- t/t3700-add.sh| 17 - 3 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
