[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Adds a check to -Qo, so that pacman warns the user if the file does not exits

[Eli Schwartz]

On 6/16/20 9:35 PM, Pedro Victor wrote:
> That's true, thanks. I sent this patch because I mistyped a path in -Qo and
> it only printed "file %mistyped_path is not owned by any package", without
> warning me that the file did not exist.
> So if this check is put somewhere after the file database query, it will
> warn about mistyped paths to nonexistent files, right?

Yes, that seems reasonable. Can you submit an updated patch?

While you are at it, commit messages are usually in the imperative mood,
e.g. "add a check [...]" rather than "adds a check". See e.g.

https://git-scm.com/docs/SubmittingPatches#imperative-mood
https://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/#imperative

-- 
Eli Schwartz
Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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