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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: "git add $ignored_file" fail
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 00:41:34 +0200
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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