From: Francis Galiegue <fge@one2team.com>
To: Mark Burton <markb@ordern.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git commit won't add an untracked file given on the command line
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:27:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200811182227.20076.fge@one2team.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081118211237.234d8035@crow>
Le Tuesday 18 November 2008 22:12:37 Mark Burton, vous avez écrit :
> Hi,
>
> When I try:
>
> git commit -m "New file." .gitignore
>
> Where .gitignore is not yet tracked, I get:
>
> error: pathspec '.gitignore' did not match any file(s) known to git.
>
> Is that result by design, sloth or bug (or me being stupid)?
>
You must "git add .gitignore" first. And yes, this is by design.
You could also have done git commit -a -m "themessage".
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-18 21:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-18 21:12 Git commit won't add an untracked file given on the command line Mark Burton
2008-11-18 21:27 ` Francis Galiegue [this message]
2008-11-18 21:47 ` Mark Burton
2008-11-19 1:07 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-11-19 1:21 ` Miles Bader
2008-11-19 1:39 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-11-19 3:43 ` Miles Bader
2008-11-19 9:41 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-11-20 5:06 ` Miles Bader
2008-11-19 1:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-19 9:54 ` Mark Burton
2008-11-19 11:27 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-11-19 13:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-19 14:41 ` Mark Burton
2008-11-19 18:01 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-11-19 23:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-19 23:30 ` Mark Burton
2008-11-19 23:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-19 23:52 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-11-20 0:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-20 10:18 ` David Aguilar
2008-11-18 22:16 ` Matthieu Moy
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