Re: git bug

From: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Date: Aug 6, 2020, 20:23 UTC
Message-ID: <5387a5b7-4551-53a0-abdb-e26cc2702536@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <1596725319.6764.7.camel@free.fr>

Am 06.08.20 um 16:48 schrieb PANEL Christian:

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> someting is not logical in the behaviour of git :
>
> suppose I have a project and a file in it I don't want to include initially in.
> so I put this file name in .gitignore
> now all is OK when I write "git status" : the file is ignored.

Like this, right?

  $ git init a
  Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/a/.git/
  $ cd a
  $ echo ignore for now >file
  $ echo file >.gitignore
  $ git add .gitignore
  $ git commit -m initial
  [master (root-commit) 2df5d68] initial
   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
   create mode 100644 .gitignore
  $ git status
  On branch master
  nothing to commit, working tree clean

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> but later I want this one be a part of my project.
> I delete in .gitignore the line that named this file.
> but now a "git status" command ignore always this file.
>
> what is wrong ?
> did I missed something ?

This seems to work as expected for me (continued from above):

  $ >.gitignore
  $ git status
  On branch master
  Changes not staged for commit:
    (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
    (use "git restore <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
  	modified:   .gitignore

  Untracked files:
    (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
  	file

  no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

So "file" is no longer ignored. Committing the .gitignore change doesn't change that:

  $ git add .gitignore
  $ git commit -m 2nd
  [master d4c95a1] 2nd
   1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
  $ git status
  On branch master
  Untracked files:
    (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
  	file

  nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)

Which steps did you take to arrive at a different result?

René