From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:28:28 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: ls-files: Give hints when errors happen.
X-Git-Tag: v1.5.0-rc0~177
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ced7b828fadbf3d6de49d75392f1516b4ceb4491;p=git.git

ls-files: Give hints when errors happen.

Without this patch "git commit file.c file2.c" produces the not
so stellar output:

	error: pathspec 'file.c' did not match any.
	error: pathspec 'file2.c' did not match any.

With this patch, the output is changed to:

	error: pathspec 'file.c' did not match any file(s) known to git.
	error: pathspec 'file2.c' did not match any file(s) known to git.
	Did you forget to 'git add'?

Signed-off-by: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
---

diff --git a/builtin-ls-files.c b/builtin-ls-files.c
index ad8c41e73..bc79ce40f 100644
--- a/builtin-ls-files.c
+++ b/builtin-ls-files.c
@@ -487,10 +487,14 @@ int cmd_ls_files(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		for (num = 0; pathspec[num]; num++) {
 			if (ps_matched[num])
 				continue;
-			error("pathspec '%s' did not match any.",
+			error("pathspec '%s' did not match any file(s) known to git.",
 			      pathspec[num] + prefix_offset);
 			errors++;
 		}
+
+		if (errors)
+			fprintf(stderr, "Did you forget to 'git add'?\n");
+
 		return errors ? 1 : 0;
 	}