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Git commit won't add an untracked file given on the command line

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MBMark Burton <markb@ordern.com>
Date
Nov 18, 2008, 21:12 UTC
Message-ID
<20081118211237.234d8035@crow>
Hi,
When I try: 
git commit -m "New file." .gitignore
Where .gitignore is not yet tracked, I get: 
error: pathspec '.gitignore' did not match any file(s) known to git.
Is that result by design, sloth or bug (or me being stupid)?
Thanks,
Mark
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