[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="dermungo@19d0cb1f22d4169b48363cfff60c9ede2c14fffa"
 nickname="dermungo"
 avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/4f4b91e2275a6673506e2990a4f96270"
 subject="Work around"
 date="2017-01-13T14:54:40Z"
 content="""
Perhaps other people knew this already, but I thought I would post it here in case someone else has trouble finding a solution to this issue.

I use a global gitignore that ignores most of the files I want to have in my annex.
The solution was to override my global .gitignore according to this answer at SO <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26678955/un-ignore-all-files-in-global-gitignore> by creating a .gitignore in the annexed repo with the pattern
```
!*
```

Now it automatically adds everything (except dotfiles) when running `git annex add $DIRPATH`.
"""]]