Re: Regression in `git add' in 1.7's 48ffef966c with a wildcard in .gitignore

> I've discovered a regression in git-add the 1.7 release which I can't
> see reported anywhere. It was introduced in
> 48ffef966c762578eb818c0c54a7e11dd054f5db by Junio C Hamano at Fri Jan
> 8 23:05:41 2010.
> 
> The problem is that when you have a .gitignore file with * in it
> git-add will only complain that you're trying to add ignored files if
> they're in the top level of your repository, for files in
> subdirectories it now just silently fails:
> 
>     $ mkdir test && cd test && git init
>     $ echo "*" > .gitignore
>     $ mkdir directory && touch foo directory/foo