Junio C Hamano wrote: > Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Does git diff/ commit/ add/ rm or any other command you can think of >> rely on a special file in the worktree (aka .gitmodules) to be checked >> out? > > Try "git add foo~" with usual suspect in .gitignore ;-) First, it's not a hard requirement: in the worst case, git add will add the file even without a -f. Second, I've already argued about how I think this is the right design: What part of that do you disagree with? What alternate design do you propose? -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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