Equivalent of `git add --force` to add ignored files in Emacs' Magit

Question

I have a rule in my .gitignore to ignore .pdf files in my current git repo. But I'd like to add a pdf in particular to my commit (example.pdf). I'm working with Emacs and Magit.

In a Linux terminal I would usually type:

git add example.pdf --force

Although, I haven't found an equivalent way of doing so in Magit.

Any ideas? Thanks

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Answer 1

Magit is very customizable. One clean method of adding this functionality would be to add an "Ignored" section to the magit status buffer.

Do this by adding a hook to magit-status-sections-hook to insert and populate a magit section. The code here: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/28506/2731 is probably exactly what you want.

Esma

Thanks! That's exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. – Fudge

Answer 2

You can try modifying your .gitignore file to exclude example.pdf (and possibly other files) from being excluded:

# Ignore PDF
*.pdf

# But exclude certain files
!example.pdf

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Answer 3

From time to time, I also have to add a single ignored file to my git repo. I use the following function:

  (defun magit-add-current-buffer ()
    "Adds (with force) the file from the current buffer to the git repo"
    (interactive)
    (shell-command (concat "git add -f "
               (shell-quote-argument buffer-file-name))))

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