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From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Cc: jnareb@gmail.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "git add $ignored_file" fail
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 15:56:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1147895816.30618.6.camel@dv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060517153903.6b896fdd.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>

On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 15:39 -0400, Sean wrote:
> On Wed, 17 May 2006 15:23:06 -0400
> Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> Shouldn't git just always respect the ignore rules?  Forcing someone to
> remove a file from the .gitignore or employ the other work around
> mentioned earlier doesn't seem too bad.  How often are people adding
> files that are explicitly ignored?

That's a good idea!  And the implementation should be easy - if the file
is present, but git-ls-file doesn't show it, tell the user to
adjust .gitignore or to use some flag like --force.

Libification of git-ls-files would allow even more precise messages.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-05-17 19:57 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
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
     [not found]               ` <20060517153903.6b896fdd.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-05-17 19:39                 ` Sean
2006-05-17 19:52                   ` Jakub Narebski
2006-05-17 19:56                 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
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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