Re: 'git add' regression in git-1.7?

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Feb 19, 2010, 05:34 UTC
Message-ID: <20100219053431.GB22645@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <32541b131002182115t5501d0d1u19367a4d8e7627e4@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:15:02AM -0500, Avery Pennarun wrote:

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> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:04 AM, SungHyun Nam <goweol@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Well, before sending the previous email, I checked the
> > RelNotes-1.7.*.txt,  and could not find such a change by searching
> > 'git add'.  So, I thought it's a regression.
> 
> As far as I know, git add has refused to add ignored files for as long
> as I can remember.  Maybe there was briefly a bug in this behaviour
> that was later fixed...
> 
> If you use 'git bisect' on the git repo, you could probably discover
> what happened, in case you're interested.

It was intentional. Try 48ffef9 (ls-files: fix overeager pathspec optimization, 2010-01-08).

-Peff