git add: Add the "--ignore-missing" option for the dry run

Sometimes it is useful to know if a file or directory will be ignored
before it is added to the work tree. An example is "git submodule add",
where it would be really nice to be able to fail with an appropriate
error message before the submodule is cloned and checked out.

Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/dir.c b/dir.c
index 151ea670d9..133f472a1e 100644
--- a/dir.c
+++ b/dir.c
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ static struct dir_entry *dir_add_name(struct dir_struct *dir, const char *pathna
 	return dir->entries[dir->nr++] = dir_entry_new(pathname, len);
 }
 
-static struct dir_entry *dir_add_ignored(struct dir_struct *dir, const char *pathname, int len)
+struct dir_entry *dir_add_ignored(struct dir_struct *dir, const char *pathname, int len)
 {
 	if (!cache_name_is_other(pathname, len))
 		return NULL;