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Re: "git add $ignored_file" fail

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PRPavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Date
May 17, 2006, 19:56 UTC
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On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 15:39 -0400, Sean wrote:
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> On Wed, 17 May 2006 15:23:06 -0400
> Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> Shouldn't git just always respect the ignore rules?  Forcing someone to
> remove a file from the .gitignore or employ the other work around
> mentioned earlier doesn't seem too bad.  How often are people adding
> files that are explicitly ignored?

That's a good idea! And the implementation should be easy - if the file is present, but git-ls-file doesn't show it, tell the user to adjust .gitignore or to use some flag like --force.

Libification of git-ls-files would allow even more precise messages.
-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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