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| author |  Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2015-02-04 13:25:13 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2015-02-04 13:25:13 -0400 |
| commit | 30d3a45c5ad9601d538e936fe3dbe19c54465ff5 (patch) | |
| tree | 8bc1a6c8696f635592732de9cb62262a4f100d9e | |
| parent | 67eaa09ced56c9ac27e9e900fabe372c0bf53bd3 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/doc/forum/Add_annex_files_outside_git_root_directory/comment_1_3d7c8917633a6632f22385b8f7a98ccf._comment b/doc/forum/Add_annex_files_outside_git_root_directory/comment_1_3d7c8917633a6632f22385b8f7a98ccf._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c0a433f94 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Add_annex_files_outside_git_root_directory/comment_1_3d7c8917633a6632f22385b8f7a98ccf._comment @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 1""" + date="2015-02-04T17:19:46Z" + content=""" +git-annex should have no difficulty doing that, and in fact its test +suite includes some adds of files in subdirs. + +The most likely reason for this behavior would be if you have configured +a `.gitignore` file (or other method of configuring gitignore) to +exclude the file you want to add. If so, "git annex add --force +mydir/myfile" would override the gitignore. + +Internally, git-annex add runs "git ls-files --others --exclude-standard" +and passes it the files/dirs you specified to add, and then adds +the files that command lists. So you can run that command and see +what it lists too. +"""]] |