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Clarify actual behavior of 'git add' and ignored files

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Signed-off-by: Brian Downing <bdowning@lavos.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Brian Downing 2007-08-16 17:56:08 -05:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -28,10 +28,12 @@ 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 'add' command can be used to add ignored files with `-f` (force)
option, but they have to be explicitly and exactly specified from the
command line. File globbing and recursive behaviour do not add ignored
files.
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 will be silently ignored.
The 'add' command can be used to add ignored files with the `-f`
(force) option.
Please see gitlink:git-commit[1] for alternative ways to add content to a
commit.