How do I get jj to track an ignored file?

[lstngr]

In #4727, an explanation is provided to get jj to untrack files that have newly been added to .gitignore.
Suppose I'm explicitly trying to track a file that is currently ignored:

jj git init .
echo '*.log' > .gitignore
touch test.log
jj file track test.log
jj st

Unfortunately, jj only reports .gitignore as an added file and ignores my instruction to track test.log.

In Git, I would resort to git add --force, but I couldn't find a similar option with jj.

[martinvonz]

I think jj file track test.log is the way, it's just not implemented yet (#2837).

[arogozhnikov]

based on #7900, I think it is jj file track --include-ignored <file>, merged, but not released yet

[joyously]

I am still opposed to the concept of a file being both ignored and tracked. Isn't that an example of Git's poor UX? Why do we want to propagate it?

[arogozhnikov]

Being ignored and tracked - I don't know.
Being ignored and checked in - is a critical usecase for me - as it allows to create snapshot of code + artifacts alongside. I use automated scripts to create these snapshots.

[lstngr]

In case it helps anyone finding this question, I resorted to manually specifying exceptions in my .gitignore (this takes about the same effort as git add --force while being a bit more clunky),

# .gitignore
*.log
!specific-log-i-want-to-track.log

[arogozhnikov]

I've found this to be surprisingly unautomatable - when script modified gitignore, jj does not immediately adds 'ungitignored file'. When done manually, it somehow works. jj file track . does not help either 🤷 .