Re: "git add $ignored_file" fail

From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: 2006-05-17 21:08:58
On Wed, 17 May 2006, Santi wrote:

> 2006/5/17, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>:
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 17 May 2006, Santi wrote:
> > >
> > >      When you try to add ignored files with the git-add command it
> > > fails [...]
> > >
> > [...]
> >
> > So it's consistent that it overrides it also for a single filename case,
> > no?
> > 
> 
> It's consistent from an implementation point of view, but not from the
> (my?) user point of view.

So, you told git to ignore the file. And then you say "please add it". I 
find it highly consistent that git does not do anything, because *you* 
decided it should ignore it in the first place.

Ciao,
Dscho

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