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From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: "git add $ignored_file" fail
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 15:56:56 -0400
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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