track doesn't override .gitignore about gitless HOT 2 OPEN

I don't think we should silently track the file because wanting to track an ignored file is most likely a user error. We can prompt the user to confirm that they want to track an ignored file, but I think that having a file that is both tracked and ignored is a bit confusing.

I am inclined to leave the behavior as it is now. Especially because you can negate a pattern in your gitignore to include files that are excluded by a previous pattern. In your example, you can add!xyz to the .gitignore file. What we can do is add a hint to the error message about a file being ignored that says "add !xyz to the .gitignore file to stop ignoring file xyz"

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FWIW git already does this with 'git add -f|--force'. Replicating that feature would be appropriate.

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