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Clarify actual behavior of 'git add' and ignored files
Signed-off-by: Brian Downing <bdowning@lavos.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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The 'git status' command can be used to obtain a summary of which
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files have changes that are staged for the next commit.
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The 'add' command can be used to add ignored files with `-f` (force)
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option, but they have to be explicitly and exactly specified from the
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command line. File globbing and recursive behaviour do not add ignored
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files.
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The 'git add' command will not add ignored files by default. If any
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ignored files were explicitly specified on the command line, 'git add'
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will fail with a list of ignored files. Ignored files reached by
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directory recursion or filename globbing will be silently ignored.
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The 'add' command can be used to add ignored files with the `-f`
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(force) option.
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Please see gitlink:git-commit[1] for alternative ways to add content to a
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