Bug#959506: git-annex: `git annex add` sometimes treats non-dotfiles in dotdirs as dotfiles

[Marco Ricci]

Control: tags 959506 upstream
Control: forwarded 959506 https://git-annex.branchable.com/bugs/add__58___inconsistently_treats_files_in_dotdirs_as_dotfiles/
thanks

Hello Joey.

Thus wrote Joey Hess:
> So, this is not the git-annex bug tracker, which is where design work
> on git-annex happens, not in a distro's bug tracker.

Granted. I did however submit to my distro's tracker first to eliminate
the case of this being Debian's fault due to a distro-specific patch, as
I know happens with some other packages. Sadly, I lack the technical
knowledge to verify by myself whether this is indeed the case. I also
assumed that if this turned out not to be a Debian-specific complaint,
then someone would forward to or request resubmission on git-annex's
tracker. I take it that I have permission (or encouragement, or
whatever) to do so now.

> Also, you seem to be requesting different changes at different points
> in this thread.

Actually, it's always been the same request: Fix git-annex's treatment
of non-dotfiles, even if the relative path “looks like a dotfile”. Or
clarify that this is intended behavior by defining what counts as
a dotfile, in the manual.

> Result is kind of annoying to me, so I'm out, at least until
> a reasonable bug report gets filed in the git-annex bug tracker.

There is now an upstream bug report (see top), which is hopefully
clearer on what I'm requesting. I'll await further discussion there,
then.

Cheers,
Marco

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