Okay, here's an updated patch to also complete ignored files when -f or
--force is specified.

If you want I can rebase and make a single patch.

On Sat, Jan 4, 2025 at 7:04 AM Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
wrote:

> >> > I was going a bit crazy trying to figure out why tab completion in
> >> > *shell* wasn't working for git add when I was trying to add a new
> >> > file to my repo.  Turns out pcomplete was only completing modified
> >> > tracked files.  This patch changes it so after git add it also
> >> > completes untracked non-ignored files.
> >> Augusto and Stefan, any comments?
>
> The (new) patch looks good to me.
>
> FWIW, it also makes sense occasionally to `git add` ignored files
> (e.g. we could want to track a `.elc` file in the test suite inside the
> Emacs repository to check how we handle specific old-format `.elc`
> files).
>
>
>         Stefan
>
>

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