Failure when adding a tracked file in an ignored directory

Hi,

I have an untracked directory, but inside this directory I have some files that I do want to track. I added these particular files with git add -f, and committed them successfully.

The problem is that every time I update any of these files, I must use git add -f, although the files are already tracked.

Example: $ git init $ mkdir foo $ touch foo/bar $ git add foo/bar $ echo /foo > .gitignore $ git add foo/bar The following paths are ignored by one of your .gitignore files: foo hint: Use -f if you really want to add them. hint: Turn this message off by running hint: "git config advice.addIgnoredFile false"

Is this intentional? I think it should only warn and fail for *newly added* files, but succeed silently for tracked files.

- Orgad