Re: Gitignore matching "git add" wildcard prevents operation

From: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s.dev@gmx.fr>
Date: Jan 15, 2010, 15:39 UTC
Message-ID: <20100115153936.GB12982@vidovic>
In-Reply-To: <4B4F87A0.2090301@sofistes.net>

The 14/01/10, Marko Poutiainen wrote:

> 
> Well, it then the interface just isn't consistent,

But it is...

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> Well, it then the interface just isn't consistent, because if that's the
> reason, then why does
> 
> $git add .
> 
> then work in this case? . is still just a type of wildcard, so it fail
> in a similar way, shouldn't it?

...because the dot isn't a wildcard. It's a path.

So, we expect 'git add' to recusively work and resolve ignored paths from .gitignore and so.

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Nicolas Sebrecht