From: Jens Lehmann Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:50:43 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] git-add: Don't exclude explicitly-specified tracked files Message-ID: <4C630D23.5090001@web.de> In-Reply-To: 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 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. >> ... 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.