On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:46:52PM +0100, Dave Williams wrote: > check-ignore currently shows how .gitignore rules would treat untracked > paths. Tracked paths do not generate useful output. This prevents > debugging of why a path became tracked unexpectedly unless that path is > first removed from the index with git rm --cached <path> > > This option (-i, --ignore-index) simply by-passes the check for the path > being in the index and hence allows tracked path to be checked too. > > Whilst this behaviour deviates from the characteristics of git add and > git status its use case is unlikely to cause any user confusion. > > Signed-off-by: Dave Williams <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [snipped] Sounds like a great idea to me, and the code changes look reasonable; however you forgot to add corresponding tests :-) Please can you expand the patch to include them? But I'm in favour in principle - thanks a lot for working on this! -- 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