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[bug] git-add won't add foo/.git/bar

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Michael Gebetsroither <gebi@sbox.tugraz.at>
Date
Mar 24, 2008, 23:55 UTC
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hi,

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

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

thx && cu, michael

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