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| author | Julia Evans <julia@jvns.ca> | 2025-08-19 20:46:10 +0000 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2025-08-19 16:04:54 -0700 |
| commit | 929e112481b4632a6664d7b583bd99b8c590eb1a (patch) | |
| tree | cecceba69dc842f6f99e2a324594b07e42517440 /Documentation | |
| parent | d14147c0ab84bf4d08adedb4d1a4e99511c56375 (diff) | |
| download | git-929e112481b4632a6664d7b583bd99b8c590eb1a.tar.gz | |
doc: git-add: simplify discussion of ignored files
- Mention the --force option earlier
- Remove the explanation of shell globbing vs git's internal glob
system, since users are confused by it and there's a clearer
discussion in the EXAMPLES section.
Signed-off-by: Julia Evans <julia@jvns.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-add.adoc | 10 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.adoc b/Documentation/git-add.adoc index 19f99b0e7f..bf793d2894 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-add.adoc +++ b/Documentation/git-add.adoc @@ -37,12 +37,10 @@ you must run `git add` again to add the new content to the index. The `git status` command can be used to obtain a summary of which files have changes that are staged for the next commit. -The `git add` command will not add ignored files by default. If any -ignored files were explicitly specified on the command line, `git add` -will fail with a list of ignored files. Ignored files reached by -directory recursion or filename globbing performed by Git (quote your -globs before the shell) will be silently ignored. The `git add` command can -be used to add ignored files with the `-f` (force) option. +The `git add` command will not add ignored files by default. You can +use the `--force` option to add ignored files. If you specify the exact +filename of an ignored file, `git add` will fail with a list of ignored +files. Otherwise it will silently ignore the file. Please see linkgit:git-commit[1] for alternative ways to add content to a commit. |