On Wed, 17 May 2006, Santi wrote: > > When you try to add ignored files with the git-add command it > fails because the call to: > > git-ls-files -z \ > --exclude-from="$GIT_DIR/info/exclude" \ > --others --exclude-per-directory=.gitignore > > does not output this file because it is ignored. I know I can do it with: > > git-update-index --add $ignored_file > > I understand the behaviour of git-ls-files but I think it is no the > expected for git-add, at least for me. Well, the thing is, git-add doesn't really take a "file name", it takes a filename _pattern_. Clearly we can't add everything that matches the pattern, because one common case is to add a whole subdirectory, and thus clearly the .gitignore file must override the pattern. So it's consistent that it overrides it also for a single filename case, no? Linus - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html