From: Pavel Roskin Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 19:56:56 GMT Subject: Re: "git add $ignored_file" fail Message-ID: <1147895816.30618.6.camel@dv> In-Reply-To: <20060517153903.6b896fdd.seanlkml@sympatico.ca> On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 15:39 -0400, Sean wrote: > On Wed, 17 May 2006 15:23:06 -0400 > Pavel Roskin 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