On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 7:03 AM, Yaroslav Halchenko <yoh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have spent some time chasing the wild goose (well - the .gitignore
> file) after getting:
>
> $> git-submodule add --name fcx-1 ./fcx-1/ ./fcx-1/
> The following path is ignored by one of your .gitignore files:
> fcx-1
> Use -f if you really want to add it.
>
> long story short -- the culprit is this piece of code in git-submodule:
>
> if test -z "$force" && ! git add --dry-run --ignore-missing "$sm_path" > /dev/null 2>&1
> then
> eval_gettextln "The following path is ignored by one of your .gitignore files:
> \$sm_path
> Use -f if you really want to add it." >&2
> exit 1
> fi
>
>
> so if anything goes wrong in git add, it just reports this error
> message.
Thanks for the bug report!
I think we could chop off "2>&1" as that would have exposed the
underlying error.
Another way to go would be to use verbose git-add and grep for
the string "add '$sm_path'".
if test -z "$force" && ! git add --verbose --dry-run
--ignore-missing "$sm_path" |grep "add $sm_path"
git-add already gives the correct (the same error message) for the
ignored files, so maybe we'd just do:
# no need for a if, but this single line will do:
test -z "$force" && git add --dry-run git.o >/dev/null || exit 1