Strange behaviour with git-add, .gitignore and a tracked file

Hi.

I stumbled across some strange behaviour today:

--- git init git-test cd git-test echo '*' > .gitignore git add -f .gitignore git commit -m "Add gitignore." mkdir dir echo a > dir/file git add -f dir/file git commit -m "Add dir/file." echo b >> dir/file git add dir/file ---

The last git-add results in the following error message:

--- The following paths are ignored by one of your .gitignore files: dir Use -f if you really want to add them. fatal: no files added ---

While it is true that the file specification matches a pattern in .gitignore, the file is already tracked and should not be ignored.

This behaviour was reproduced with 1.7.7.4 (on OS X), 1.7.5.4, 1.7.1, 1.7.8-247-g10f4eb6 (latest master as of a couple of hours ago) (all Linux).

Greetings,

	David

David ‘Bombe’ Roden  <bombe@pterodactylus.net> writes:

Doesn't that suggest perhaps it could be a designed behaviour?

Perhaps to help users to realize that their .gitignore pattern may want to be improved?