Re: git add -i fails to heed user's exclude settings

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Nov 8, 2007, 09:46 UTC
Message-ID: <4732DAD8.8000702@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <buowsstmapt.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com>

Miles Bader wrote:

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> Inside git add -i, option 4 "add untracked", it doesn't seem to consider
> the user's personal ignore patterns, which is _really_ annoying.
> 
> E.g., I have:
> 
>    $ git config core.excludesfile
>    /home/miles/.gitignore
> 
>    $ cat /home/miles/.gitignore
>    [+,#]*
>    *~
> 
>    $ git status
>    # On branch master
>    nothing to commit (working directory clean)
> 
>    $ git add -i
>               staged     unstaged path
> 
>    *** Commands ***
>      1: status       2: update       3: revert       4: add untracked
>      5: patch        6: diff         7: quit         8: help
>    What now> 4
>      1: ,l
>      2: ,l.~1~
>      3: AUTHORS.~1~
>      4: Makefile.am.~1~
>      5: config.h.in~
>      6: configure.ac.~1~
>      ...tons of other random backup files etc...
> 
> This makes it very hard to find files that actually need to be added!
>

Which git version are you using?

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