From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 19:57:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] git-add: add ignored files when asked explicitly.
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612251454040.18171@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vslf3khsc.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

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

> An alternative is to use the mechanism I added here to _detect_
> the attempt to add an ignored file with explicitly spelled out
> pathspec, and issue an info message that says something like:
> 
> 	Path 'xyzzy/filfre.o' is not being ignored by one of
> 	your .gitignore files.  If you really want to add it,
> 	please add this entry to .gitignore file:
> 
>         !/xyzzy/filfre.o

What about this instead:

	Path 'xyzzy/filfre.o' should be ignored according to one of
	your .gitignore files.  If you really want to add it, you must
	use the -f flag.


Nicolas