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From: Michael Gebetsroither <gebi@sbox.tugraz.at>
Subject: Re: [bug] git-add won't add foo/.git/bar
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:47:34 +0100
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* Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk> writes:
>> On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Michael Gebetsroither wrote:

>>> % git-add -f foo/.git/bar
>>> fatal: unable to add foo/.git/bar to index

> Also it is false that we should only care about the first one.  Think
> submodules.

Would it be possible to allow it with git-add -f or does that break to
many cases?

cu,
michael
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