From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "git add $ignored_file" fail
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 00:41:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e4dkes$8e7$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.64.0605161526210.16475@g5.osdl.org
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Well, the thing is, git-add doesn't really take a "file name", it takes a
> filename _pattern_.
>
> Clearly we can't add everything that matches the pattern, because one
> common case is to add a whole subdirectory, and thus clearly the
> .gitignore file must override the pattern.
>
> So it's consistent that it overrides it also for a single filename case,
> no?
Well, if shell expansion cannot find a file matching pattern, it uses
pattern as file name literaly.
It would be nice to have easy (git core porcelain level) way to add files
which match ignore pattern.
--
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-16 22:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-16 22:07 "git add $ignored_file" fail Santi
2006-05-16 22:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-16 22:41 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2006-05-16 22:42 ` Santi
2006-05-17 11:08 ` Johannes Schindelin
[not found] ` <81b0412b0605170604i689a8f7axa5aeb7752dc72072@mail.gmail.com>
2006-05-17 13:41 ` Santi
2006-05-17 13:46 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-05-17 19:23 ` Pavel Roskin
2006-05-17 19:39 ` Sean
2006-05-17 19:39 ` Sean
2006-05-17 19:52 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-05-17 19:56 ` Pavel Roskin
2006-05-17 20:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-17 20:35 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-05-17 20:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-17 23:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-17 23:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-17 13:48 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-05-17 14:49 ` Linus Torvalds
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