git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: "git add $ignored_file" fail

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
May 17, 2006, 14:49 UTC
Message-ID
<Pine.LNX.4.64.0605170747280.10823@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To
<8aa486160605170641p2ab8704o@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 17 May 2006, Santi wrote:
> 
> In the other way, now I find the value of being able to say:
> 
> $ git add t*

Exactly. The shell will expand the path, so the fact that the path exists on the command line does not mean that "git add" should just trust it.

> and be sure that it does not add an ignored file. Unfortunately
> git-add cannot distinguish between both. So what I propose is to
> document it explicitly, something like:

Documenting this more clearly (and the workaround of forcing it with "git-update-index --add" by hand) is certainly a good idea.

			Linus
Previous: Johannes SchindelinNext: Pavel Roskin
Message 12 of 18 in “"git add $ignored_file" fail”
  1. SantiMay 16, 2006
  2. Linus TorvaldsMay 16, 2006
  3. Jakub NarebskiMay 16, 2006
  4. SantiMay 16, 2006
  5. Johannes SchindelinMay 17, 2006
  6. SantiMay 17, 2006
  7. Jakub NarebskiMay 17, 2006
  8. Pavel RoskinMay 17, 2006
  9. SeanMay 17, 2006
  10. Jakub NarebskiMay 17, 2006
  11. Johannes SchindelinMay 17, 2006
  12. Linus TorvaldsMay 17, 2006
  13. Pavel RoskinMay 17, 2006
  14. Linus TorvaldsMay 17, 2006
  15. Jakub NarebskiMay 17, 2006
  16. Linus TorvaldsMay 17, 2006
  17. Junio C HamanoMay 17, 2006
  18. Linus TorvaldsMay 17, 2006

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.