Re: gitignore design

From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date: Jul 29, 2011, 16:44 UTC
Message-ID: <295478CF936A4310941CE2001892A2DA@PhilipOakley>
In-Reply-To: <1311934832699-6632987.post@n2.nabble.com>

The answer is that you can use
   git add --force <filename>
to force git to take a copy of the current version of that file and place it 
in the staging area, despite it being in the ignore list.

 Being *in* the staging area means that that specific version will be copied 
into each commit until you ask git to remove that copy (with git rm 
<filename> from the staging area, or update that copy, or whatever.

This depends on how (i.e. the options) you add files before a commit, or do the commit itself, etc. For example the 'git add -A .' option will notice all the changes, including any updates to your <filename> (which may not be what you want).

Git is flexible enough to do what you need. It can be hard to see the effect of all the options especially if someone has shown you a 'magic' command, but hasn't fully explained the consequences. Many things are only obvious in retrospect.

Philip Oakley
Scotland
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From: "llucianf" <llucianf@gmail.com>
To: <git@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 11:20 AM
Subject: gitignore design

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> why gitignore doesnt simply work like in cvs where if you put something in
> the ignore file, those stuff are simply ignored from that point without
> having to remove them from repo?
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