From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 17:32:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] Git add <device file> silently fails
Message-ID: <n2i81b0412b1004171032v713f156ase295cbe7bbedf1f6@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v4oja3uh7.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 18:38, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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.