With git, how can I perform a git add and still have it ignore the patterns in .gitignore?

Question

I want to do something like git add *.java and not let it throw up just because one of those files matched the .gitignore.

For example: In my directory I have

ignored.java
something.java
somethingelse.java 
somethingevenmoreelse.java.

where the three last files were just created by me. I then want to do git add *.java

and have it add those three files. In other words, instead of giving me

The following paths are ignored by one of your .gitignore files:
ignored.java
Use -f if you really want to add them.
fatal: no files added

... I would rather it would just ignore the .gitignored files and add the rest.

Answer 1

If you quote the glob pattern then it will interpreted by git instead of the shell and it will ignore the ignored files before adding the rest without error.

git add '*.java'

alternatively:

git add \*.java