Re: "git add $ignored_file" fail

From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Date: May 17, 2006, 19:23 UTC
Message-ID: <1147893786.16654.5.camel@dv>
In-Reply-To: <e4f9eo$b60$1@sea.gmane.org>

On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 15:46 +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote:

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> Santi wrote:
> 
> > In the other way, now I find the value of being able to say:
> > 
> > $ git add t*
> > 
> > and be sure that it does not add an ignored file. Unfortunately
> > git-add cannot distinguish between both.
> 
> Well, it could. If 'git add <filespec>' would result in NO files 
> added, take <filespec> as literate <file> (filename), regardless
> of ignores.

Can we apply the ignore rules to the directories but not the files?

This way, "git-add *" would add all files (rarely a good idea), whereas "git-add ." would respect the ignore rules.

Kludgy as it is, this approach would generally produce more expected results than others. If you let the shell expand the pattern, expect all junk to be added. If you let git expand the pattern, expect it to adhere to the ignore rules.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin