Re: [RFC/PATCH] git-add: Don't exclude explicitly-specified tracked files

From: Jens Lehmann <jens.lehmann@web.de>
Date: Aug 11, 2010, 20:50 UTC
Message-ID: <4C630D23.5090001@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikPSR36SdUuzWsXxZsy9jsKOnp=_iz43BF-6nYe@mail.gmail.com>

Are we talking about two different issues here?

Am 11.08.2010 14:24, schrieb Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason:

> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 07:03, Greg Brockman <gdb@mit.edu> wrote:
>> Currently, 'git add' will complain about excluded files, even if they
>> are already tracked:

I'm all for not complaining when adding an ignored file that is already tracked, as the user already told us he wants to track this file despite .gitignore.

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>> ... so it feels natural to me not
>> to require extra user confirmation when an explicit path has been provided.
> 
> I like it. I keep a /etc in git with .gitignore "*". This would help a
> lot for use cases like that. Explicitly specifying a full path should
> override gitignore IMO.

I'm not so sure if we should silently add ignored files just because they appear on the command line. For me having to force the first time I do a "git add" for an otherwise ignored file looks like a feature.