From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:21:34 GMT
Subject: Re: Gitignore matching "git add" wildcard prevents operation
Message-ID: <7vljg0bfox.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100114195234.GA26684@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> ... But there is no way to
> use the shell wildcard and get the behavior you want (not even a "git
> add --really-ignore-my-ignores a.*").

Perhaps you want to run

	$ git add 'a.*'

Notice that the wildcard is protected from the shell.