git annex add silently ignores non-existent files

[Adam Spiers]

On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Richard Hartmann
<richih.mailinglist at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 16:51, Joey Hess <joey at kitenet.net> wrote:
>
>> joey at gnu:~/src/other/git>git ls-files --error-unmatch --others zlib.o zlib.c
>> zlib.o
>> error: pathspec 'zlib.c' did not match any file(s) known to git.
>> Did you forget to 'git add'?
>
> I am 99% sure this is a bug; investigating.

Did you draw any conclusions from this?  Thanks :)