Linus Torvalds wrote: > 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? Well, if shell expansion cannot find a file matching pattern, it uses pattern as file name literaly. It would be nice to have easy (git core porcelain level) way to add files which match ignore pattern. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland - : 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