Re: "git add $ignored_file" fail

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: May 16, 2006, 22:28 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605161526210.16475@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <8aa486160605161507w3a27152dq@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 17 May 2006, Santi wrote:

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> 
>      When you try to add ignored files with the git-add command it
> fails because the call to:
> 
> git-ls-files -z \
>        --exclude-from="$GIT_DIR/info/exclude" \
>        --others --exclude-per-directory=.gitignore
> 
>      does not output this file because it is ignored. I know I can do it with:
> 
> git-update-index --add $ignored_file
> 
> I understand the behaviour of git-ls-files but I think it is no the
> expected for git-add, at least for me.

Well, the thing is, git-add doesn't really take a "file name", it takes a filename _pattern_.

Clearly we can't add everything that matches the pattern, because one common case is to add a whole subdirectory, and thus clearly the .gitignore file must override the pattern.

So it's consistent that it overrides it also for a single filename case, no?

		Linus