From: Greg Brockman <gdb@mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:36:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] git-add: Don't exclude explicitly-specified tracked files
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In-Reply-To: <7vmxstypot.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

> What should happen if the user did these instead, after adding "dir" as an
> ignored entry, and adding dir/file but not dir/untracked to the index?
>
>  (1)    git add dir/file dir/untracked    ; explicitly named
>  (2)    git add dir/*                     ; have shell glob--same as (1)
>  (3)    git add "dir/*"                   ; have git glob
>  (4)    git add dir                       ; have git recurse

In all four cases, the output I get is:
"""
The following paths are ignored by one of your .gitignore files:
dir
Use -f if you really want to add them.
fatal: no files added
"""

Note that this is also the output if you run

(5) rm dir/untracked && git add "dir/*"

Greg