Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> Oops, I think our mails just crossed. I don't think --ignore-errors does
> quite what you want, though:
>
> $ touch foo
> $ git add foo bar
> fatal: pathspec 'bar' did not match any files
> $ git add --ignore-errors foo bar
> fatal: pathspec 'bar' did not match any files
> $ git status --porcelain
> ?? foo
The option is described like so:
--[no-]ignore-errors just skip files which cannot be added because of errors
I think "because of errors" is meant handle a sequence more like this:
$ date >foo ; date >bar
$ chmod a= foo
$ git add --ignore-errors foo bar
$ git diff --cached --name-only
bar
