From: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:01:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [bug] git-add won't add foo/.git/bar
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0803242359230.24262@kaos.quantumfyre.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <fs9f0o$jge$1@ger.gmane.org>

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Michael Gebetsroither wrote:

> hi,
>
> % git-add -f foo/.git/bar
> fatal: unable to add foo/.git/bar to index

Well, git won't allow .git as a element anywhere in the path, when we 
should only care about the _first_ one - and also, if you use 
--git-dir=banana then we still check for '.git' ... oops.

patch in the works ... ;)

>
> How do i add such a file to a git repository?

wait? :P

Sorry, can't see any easy way to work around this atm.

>
> thx && cu,
> michael
>

-- 
Julian

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