Bug 449468 - Allow forced "add" operation for "ignored" files or to "unignore"
Summary: Allow forced "add" operation for "ignored" files or to "unignore"
Status: NEW
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Product: EGit
Classification: Technology
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 3.6   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement with 2 votes (vote)
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Assignee: Project Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2014-10-31 08:41 EDT by Andrey Loskutov CLA
Modified: 2019-10-09 06:48 EDT (History)
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Description Andrey Loskutov CLA 2014-10-31 08:41:20 EDT 
User wants to add a file to the staging area that is in a folder that is filtered out by git ignore. If one tries to use "Add to index" in Eclipse this does not work.

One can use "git add -f" to add files that are in the git ignore file via git CLI and it would be good if "Add to index" would support it, too. Maybe by using a dialog that asks "Do you really want to add the file?"

Additionally one could think about adding "Unignore" menu for ignored files - which should just add negation rule to the next available .gitignore file (if any).