Re: [RFD/PATCH] add: ignore only ignored files

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
>> Typically I keep a very neat .gitignore file and just use "git add .",
>> which _does_ ignore those files. The real problem here is that git
>> cannot tell the difference between "the user explicitly asked for
>> foo.aux, so we should complain" and "oops, foo.aux got caught in a shell
>> expansion".
> 
> Yup.  I also find myself doing "git cmd -- \*.ext" to let Git, not
> my shell, handle the patterns.

>> I almost wonder if skipping ignored files should _always_ be a warning,
>> not a hard error. I guess that has unpleasant side effects for scripts
>> which call "git add XXX" and check the exit code, who may be
>> unpleasantly surprised that they missed out on some content.
>>
>> Perhaps we could do a hybrid: add the files that were not ignored, but
>> then still exit non-zero. Careful scripts need to check the exit status
>> of "git add" anyway, and sloppy humans with over-broad wildcards
>> typically do not care about the exit status.
> 
> ;-)
>