Re: [RFC/PATCH] git-add: Don't exclude explicitly-specified tracked files

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 12, 2010, 20:00 UTC
Message-ID: <7viq3fsirv.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimODL6j11D6QuUX4b47GwFOVOXdqkhqrRfRaxmq@mail.gmail.com>

Greg Brockman <gdb@MIT.EDU> writes:

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> First of all, as you point out 'git add foo.pdf' works where foo.pdf
> has been explicitly ignored, while in contrast 'git add dir/file'
> fails when file has only been indirectly ignored because it is in an
> ignored directory.  In the former case, the user explicitly specified
> a policy for that file.  In the later case, the policy is only
> indirectly expressed because that file happens to be in an ignored
> directory.

Sorry, but I don't get this argument. When the user says "everything in this directory is ignored", why does it make it less direct than "this particular file is ignored"?