Re: [PATCH 5/5] git-add: add ignored files when asked explicitly.

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Dec 26, 2006, 15:34 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612261632360.19693@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vslf3khsc.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Mon, 25 Dec 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, 25 Dec 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> >>     $ git add foo.o
> >>     $ git add '*.o'
> >
> > Most people do
> >
> > 	$ git add *.o
> >
> > instead, where bash expands the expression. Maybe this new behaviour 
> > should be hidden between a "-f" option?
> 
> When would anybody do "git add *.o"?

Not exactly "git add *.o", but when I see in git-status that there are only a couple of files which are untracked, and I want them added, I lazily do "git add *".

Ciao, Dscho