[MERGE] Fix for 306394: warning, not error, on non-existent file.

[Martin Pool]

On 23 Dec 2008, Karl Fogel <karl.fogel at canonical.com> wrote:
> I can't quite tell if you're asserting that the original behavior is
> better, or just wondering why I bothered to fix such a minor bug :-).
> 
> If the latter: 
> 
> Because it's one of the 4 blockers keeping the GNU Emacs project from
> switching to bzr (look for bugs tagged with "emacs-adoption" to see them
> all).  Specifically, the line in the bug description about:
> 
>    "This type of operation occurs in normal usage in emacs when using
>     the vc-dir GUI."
> 
> (Emacs switching to bzr is something I really want to see happen; I'm
> unfortunately not qualified to fix all of the blockers, but I can at
> least do this one.)
> 
> If the former:
> 
> Independently of Emacs, I think warning is a better behavior here than
> erroring.  The user has asked for status on a number of path names.  For
> some of those names, the status is "does not exist".  Fine -- let's
> report that, and report the status of the other paths as well, rather
> than treat non-existence as so special that it must suppress other
> statuses from being reported.

fwiw I think both those motivations are reasonable.

-- 
Martin      <http://launchpad.net/~mbp>