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From: Orgad Shaneh <orgads@gmail.com>
To: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Failure when adding a tracked file in an ignored directory
Date: Fri, 13 May 2022 10:10:22 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGHpTBJDb4rv1EVvR7J9MNEgf0QnFscaf6rWG4_nOW-JnuO9FQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

I have an untracked directory, but inside this directory I have some
files that I do want to track. I added these particular files with git
add -f, and committed them successfully.

The problem is that every time I update any of these files, I must use
git add -f, although the files are already tracked.

Example:
$ git init
$ mkdir foo
$ touch foo/bar
$ git add foo/bar
$ echo /foo > .gitignore
$ git add foo/bar
The following paths are ignored by one of your .gitignore files:
foo
hint: Use -f if you really want to add them.
hint: Turn this message off by running
hint: "git config advice.addIgnoredFile false"

Is this intentional? I think it should only warn and fail for *newly
added* files, but succeed silently for tracked files.

- Orgad

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