From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:42:30 GMT
Subject: Re: Strange behaviour with git-add, .gitignore and a tracked file
Message-ID: <7vmxasf5i1.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <201112162258.04661.bombe@pterodactylus.net>

David ‘Bombe’ Roden  <bombe@pterodactylus.net> writes:

> This behaviour was reproduced with 1.7.7.4 (on OS X), 1.7.5.4, 1.7.1, 
> 1.7.8-247-g10f4eb6 (latest master as of a couple of hours ago) (all Linux).

Doesn't that suggest perhaps it could be a designed behaviour?

Perhaps to help users to realize that their .gitignore pattern may want to
be improved?