From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 19:05:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] git-add: add ignored files when asked explicitly.
Message-ID: <7v1wmmfpfw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612261632360.19693@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

>> > Most people do
>> >
>> > 	$ git add *.o
>> >
>> > instead, where bash expands the expression. Maybe this new behaviour 
>> > should be hidden between a "-f" option?
>> 
>> When would anybody do "git add *.o"?
>
> Not exactly "git add *.o", but when I see in git-status that there are 
> only a couple of files which are untracked, and I want them added, I 
> lazily do "git add *".

I changed it to warn and refuse and made it only add under -f
flag.