Re: Strange behaviour with git-add, .gitignore and a tracked file

David ‘Bombe’ Roden  [off-list ref] writes:

This behaviour was reproduced with 1.7.7.4 (on OS X), 1.7.5.4, 1.7.1, 
1.7.8-247-g10f4eb6 (latest master as of a couple of hours ago) (all Linux).

Doesn't that suggest perhaps it could be a designed behaviour?

Perhaps to help users to realize that their .gitignore pattern may want to
be improved?