Hi Andrey, On Fri, 15 Jul 2016, Andrey Vagin wrote:
> What will be wrong if 'git status' will reports these [fifo/socket] files? `git status` is intended to give you an idea what to commit next. And... > What will be wrong if 'git add' will returns an error instead of > skipping them silently? ... we *cannot* commit fifos or sockets. There is simply no representation in Git's data model for them. Having said that, I would welcome a patch that makes `git add` complain about arguments that could not be added (and are not directories). As to the patch in question, for the above-mentioned reasons, I think we want to keep the existing behavior instead. Ciao, Johannes -- 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
