From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:39:28 GMT
Subject: Re: Gitignore matching "git add" wildcard prevents operation
Message-ID: <20100114203928.GA26883@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vljg0bfox.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:21:34PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > ... But there is no way to
> > use the shell wildcard and get the behavior you want (not even a "git
> > add --really-ignore-my-ignores a.*").
> 
> Perhaps you want to run
> 
> 	$ git add 'a.*'
> 
> Notice that the wildcard is protected from the shell.

Ugh. You're right that it does work, but I don't expect users to make
the intuitive jump from the OP's problem to this solution (I certainly
didn't). In particular:

  1. Most programs don't take their own globs. Without knowing that git
     can do so, there is no reason to discover it in this instance. I
     can see searching the manpage for options, but not for a discussion
     of globbing behavior.

  2. They would have to know that using a git-glob will magically change
     the error-checking behavior.

-Peff