Add --ignore-errors to git-add to allow it to skip files with read errors

Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt
index e0e730b6c44d473ad6cc9a23f7b727ab818d63a5..bb4abe26bb5d12916e8f396e3b94573f42e37a29 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-add.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
 'git-add' [-n] [-v] [-f] [--interactive | -i] [--patch | -p] [-u] [--refresh]
-          [--] <filepattern>...
+         [--ignore-errors] [--] <filepattern>...
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -83,6 +83,11 @@ OPTIONS
        Don't add the file(s), but only refresh their stat()
        information in the index.
 
+\--ignore-errors::
+       If some files could not be added because of errors indexing
+       them, do not abort the operation, but continue adding the
+       others. The command shall still exit with non-zero status.
+
 \--::
        This option can be used to separate command-line options from
        the list of files, (useful when filenames might be mistaken

diff --git a/builtin-add.c b/builtin-add.c
index 786280818aaad12afbd7ce45bf955db9a6a7edc5..522519ec865c7fb00caf98b7935338d036175894 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin-add.c
+++ b/builtin-add.c
@@ -191,6 +191,7 @@ static const char ignore_error[] =
 "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;
 
 static struct option builtin_add_options[] = {
        OPT__DRY_RUN(&show_only),
@@ -201,6 +202,7 @@ static struct option builtin_add_options[] = {
        OPT_BOOLEAN('f', NULL, &ignored_too, "allow adding otherwise ignored files"),
        OPT_BOOLEAN('u', NULL, &take_worktree_changes, "update tracked 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_END(),
 };
 
@@ -231,6 +233,8 @@ int cmd_add(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 
                if (verbose)
                        flags |= ADD_FILES_VERBOSE;
+               if (ignore_add_errors)
+                       flags |= ADD_FILES_IGNORE_ERRORS;
 
                exit_status = add_files_to_cache(prefix, pathspec, flags);
                goto finish;
@@ -274,8 +278,11 @@ int cmd_add(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
        }
 
        for (i = 0; i < dir.nr; i++)
-               if (add_file_to_cache(dir.entries[i]->name, verbose))
-                       die("adding files failed");
+               if (add_file_to_cache(dir.entries[i]->name, verbose)) {
+                       if (!ignore_add_errors)
+                               die("adding files failed");
+                       exit_status = 1;
+               }
 
  finish:
        if (active_cache_changed) {