On 9 August 2018 at 21:58, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > If you are asking as a more general case: why do we not complain about > .gitignore for files the index already knows about, then I think that is > useful. It lets you override the .gitignore _once_ when adding the file > initially, and then you don't have to deal with it again (and keep in > mind that the pattern excluding it may be broad, like "*.o", or even > just "*", so simply deleting it from the .gitignore is not an option). This totally makes sense to me. Thanks for your explaination! On 10 August 2018 at 03:12, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "git help gitignore" has some notes about this. Thanks! I wasn't aware of this. For some peculiar reason it didn't strike me that the most appropriate place to look for .gitignore-related stuff is - lo and behold - .gitignore manual page. I was looking for clarification on 'git add' page, which I didn't find informative enough in that aspect. > If you have ideas > about moments in interactive use where we could print some messages to > make the behavior less surprising, that would be very welcome. Sure I do! I have came up with two ideas which I believe that can be combined: 1. > staged unstaged path > 1: unchanged +1/-0 .gitignore ! > 2: +0/-0 nothing excluded.txt > > ! Not ignoring yet untracked files. > > *** Commands *** > 1: status 2: update 3: revert 4: add untracked > 5: patch 6: diff 7: quit 8: help > What now> Here I propose to add an exclamation mark next to a .gitignore file and reference it below. I am also thinking about marking files that .gitignore affects. I think that any special character would be appropriate. If I may only suggest, I wouldn't choose an asterisk (*) because it's already used when a '2: update' option is chosen. 2. > staged unstaged path > 1: unchanged +1/-0 .gitignore > 2: +0/-0 nothing excluded.txt > > *** Commands *** > 1: status 2: update 3: revert 4: add untracked > 5: patch 6: diff 7: quit 8: help > What now> q > You are about to add new files that are excluded in .gitignore. Confirm y/n? > What now>y > Bye. Here I ask the user to confirm that he is about to stage yet untracked files. Then I cheer him up with Git built-in courtesy.
