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author | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2006-12-25 14:13:45 +0300 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2006-12-25 14:29:08 +0300 |
commit | e23ca9e1f95a756bfe598568be9d03059db1dad2 (patch) | |
tree | ab1e60a204db751935224bfae53db6709a9e46ad /Documentation/git-add.txt | |
parent | 4888c534099012d71d24051deb5b14319747bd1a (diff) |
git-add: add ignored files when asked explicitly.
One thing many people found confusing about git-add was that a
file whose name matches an ignored pattern could not be added to
the index. With this, such a file can be added by explicitly
spelling its name to git-add.
Fileglobs and recursive behaviour do not add ignored files to
the index. That is, if a pattern '*.o' is in .gitignore, and
two files foo.o, bar/baz.o are in the working tree:
$ git add foo.o
$ git add '*.o'
$ git add bar
Only the first form adds foo.o to the index.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-add.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-add.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt index 8710b3a75e..2fef0681bf 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-add.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt @@ -25,8 +25,9 @@ the commit. The 'git status' command can be used to obtain a summary of what is included for the next commit. -This command only adds non-ignored files, to add ignored files use -"git update-index --add". +This command can be used to add ignored files, but they have to be +explicitly and exactly specified from the command line. File globbing +and recursive behaviour do not add ignored files. Please see gitlink:git-commit[1] for alternative ways to add content to a commit. @@ -35,7 +36,11 @@ commit. OPTIONS ------- <file>...:: - Files to add content from. + Files to add content from. Fileglobs (e.g. `*.c`) can + be given to add all matching files. Also a + leading directory name (e.g. `dir` to add `dir/file1` + and `dir/file2`) can be given to add all files in the + directory, recursively. -n:: Don't actually add the file(s), just show if they exist. |