Bug#476595: git-add --allow-empty would be nice

tags 476595 + upstream wontfix quit Hi Guido, Guido Günther wrote: for #476347 it'd be nice to have a: git-add --allow-empty filepattern git add is for humans and its behavior and output are potential to change as our understanding of humans improves; git update-index is for machines,

Bug#476595: git-add --allow-empty would be nice

Package: git-core Version: 1:1.5.5-1 Severity: wishlist Hi, for #476347 it'd be nice to have a: git-add --allow-empty filepattern (similar to git-commit) which wouldn't fail if filepattern doesn't match any files in the current dir. This way we could still detect errors like git-add being