Re: 'git add' regression in git-1.7?

> Actually, if we accept that the message simply mentions the excluded
> path, i.e.:
>
>   $ git add subdir/file
>   The following paths are ignored by one of your .gitignore files:
>   subdir
>   Use -f if you really want to add them.
>
> then we don't really need to recurse. We just need to fix in_pathspec to
> flag files that are _relevant_ to a pathspec.

> And something like this seems to fix the OP's problem:
> ...
> Which is similar to your fix, but hoisted into the ignore-collection
> phase. Like the original code and your patch, it suffers from using a
> straight memcmp. I think it should actually be checking the pathspec
> expansion to catch things like 'sub*/file' being relevant to 'subdir'.