From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 02:04:36 GMT
Subject: Re: Can't track untracked file
Message-ID: <7vr4r7383v.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <A32BFCAF-114F-4A65-B802-8DD2A795B96E@snafu.org>

Marco S Hyman <marc@snafu.org> writes:

> And there is NOTHING I can do to get that directory into git.
>
>   $ git add 2010
>   $ git commit -m 'will it work?'
>   # On branch master
>   # Untracked files:
>   #   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
>   #
>   #	2010/
>   nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)
>
> The directory is not empty.

Perhaps "2010" or everything in it is ignored in .gitignore in
higher directories?