On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 12:10:19AM +0100, Another Email wrote: > Thank you for filling out a Git bug report! > Please answer the following questions to help us understand your issue. > > What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue) > git init test > cd test > echo "test" > test.txt > git add -AN Passing '-A' to 'git add' is the problem. See the discussion further down in the thread for why this is the case. Whether or not this is a good thing, this will do what you want without '-A' (that is, by running 'git add -N' instead). Thanks, Taylor