On Wed, 17 May 2006, Santi wrote: > > In the other way, now I find the value of being able to say: > > $ git add t* Exactly. The shell will expand the path, so the fact that the path exists on the command line does not mean that "git add" should just trust it. > and be sure that it does not add an ignored file. Unfortunately > git-add cannot distinguish between both. So what I propose is to > document it explicitly, something like: Documenting this more clearly (and the workaround of forcing it with "git-update-index --add" by hand) is certainly a good idea. 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