From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 20:26:32 GMT Subject: Re: "git add $ignored_file" fail Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1147895816.30618.6.camel@dv> On Wed, 17 May 2006, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 15:39 -0400, Sean wrote: > > On Wed, 17 May 2006 15:23:06 -0400 > > Pavel Roskin wrote: > > > > Shouldn't git just always respect the ignore rules? Forcing someone to > > remove a file from the .gitignore or employ the other work around > > mentioned earlier doesn't seem too bad. How often are people adding > > files that are explicitly ignored? > > That's a good idea! And the implementation should be easy - if the file > is present, but git-ls-file doesn't show it, tell the user to > adjust .gitignore or to use some flag like --force. Umm. That's exactly the semantics for "git add" right now. We _always_ respect the ignore rules. That was what people were complaining about. Although I think Santi realized why we do it, and isn't even complaining any more. So we're all good again. Linus