Re: Git commit won't add an untracked file given on the command line

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Nov 19, 2008, 01:07 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0811190206170.30769@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20081118214730.005fc72d@crow>

Hi,

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Mark Burton wrote:

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> Hi Francis,
> 
> > You must "git add .gitignore" first. And yes, this is by design.
> 
> Err, that's a bit odd isn't it because "git add" stages the content into 
> the index but the whole point of specifying files on the command line to 
> "git commit" is to commit the changes in the specified files while 
> ignoring what's currently in the index (so says the man page for 
> commit).

It may be a traditional wart, but a helpful one. Remember, you can also say:

	git commit that/directory/

I do _not_ want Git to add all untracked (and unignored) files in that directory automatically.

Ciao, Dscho