From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "David ‘Bombe’ Roden" <bombe@pterodactylus.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Strange behaviour with git-add, .gitignore and a tracked file
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:42:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vmxasf5i1.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201112162258.04661.bombe@pterodactylus.net> ("David ‘Bombe’ Roden"'s message of "Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:57:57 +0100")
David ‘Bombe’ Roden <bombe@pterodactylus.net> writes:
> This behaviour was reproduced with 1.7.7.4 (on OS X), 1.7.5.4, 1.7.1,
> 1.7.8-247-g10f4eb6 (latest master as of a couple of hours ago) (all Linux).
Doesn't that suggest perhaps it could be a designed behaviour?
Perhaps to help users to realize that their .gitignore pattern may want to
be improved?
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2011-12-16 21:57 Strange behaviour with git-add, .gitignore and a tracked file David ‘Bombe’ Roden
2011-12-16 23:42 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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