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Re: [BUG] Git add <device file> silently fails

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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 17, 2010, 17:32 UTC
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On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 18:38, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I think something like this should make the accident more
>> noticable:
>
> The early skippage done in dir.c (read-directory-recursive) should treat
> these as ignored just like paths that are ignored with .gitignore
> mechanism, and if we do so, we shouldn't need this patch to add another
> codepath to give notification to the user (we would however still need
> to reword "'add -f' if you really want to add it", though).
>

I see. Special files are not treated as ignored yet (and there will be no way to un-ignore them). I have to read the code for a while, ignored pathnames are sometimes stored for later use too.

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  1. Andreas GruenbacherApr 17, 2010
  2. Alex RiesenApr 17, 2010
  3. Andreas GruenbacherApr 17, 2010
  4. Alex RiesenApr 17, 2010
  5. Junio C HamanoApr 17, 2010
  6. Alex RiesenApr 17, 2010
  7. Alex RiesenApr 17, 2010
  8. Andreas GruenbacherApr 17, 2010
  9. Junio C HamanoApr 19, 2010

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