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Subject: Re: "git add $ignored_file" fail
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 15:46:04 +0200
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Santi wrote:

> In the other way, now I find the value of being able to say:
> 
> $ git add t*
> 
> and be sure that it does not add an ignored file. Unfortunately
> git-add cannot distinguish between both.

Well, it could. If 'git add <filespec>' would result in NO files 
added, take <filespec> as literate <file> (filename), regardless
of ignores.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland