Currently a recursive add ignores dotfiles. This is annoying when adding for instance an eclipse project on windows (eclipse uses directories starting with . for project settings)
I propose to add a flag -dotfiles to add so that when specified .files and .dir will be added as well.
Following diff adds the option to fossil add:
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@@ -65,21 +65,24 @@
 ** All content of the zDir directory to the SFILE table.
 */
 void add_directory_content(const char *zDir){
   DIR *d;
   int origSize;
+  int dotFlag;
   struct dirent *pEntry;
   Blob path;
+  dotFlag = find_option("dotfiles","d",0)!=0;

   blob_zero(&path);
   blob_append(&path, zDir, -1);
   origSize = blob_size(&path);
   d = opendir(zDir);
   if( d ){
     while( (pEntry=readdir(d))!=0 ){
       char *zPath;
-      if( pEntry->d_name[0]=='.' ) continue;
+      if( pEntry->d_name[0]=='.' && !dotFlag) continue;
+      if( strcmp(pEntry->d_name, "..")==0 ||  strcmp(pEntry->d_name, ".")==0 ) continue;
       blob_appendf(&path, "/%s", pEntry->d_name);
       zPath = blob_str(&path);
       if( file_isdir(zPath)==1 ){
         add_directory_content(zPath);
       }else if( file_isfile(zPath) ){
@@ -112,10 +115,14 @@
 **
 ** Usage: %fossil add FILE...
 **
 ** Make arrangements to add one or more files to the current checkout
 ** at the next commit.
+**
+** When adding files recursively, by default files or directories
+** starting with a . (dot), will not be added. This behaviour can be changed
+** by the optional -dotfiles flag.
 */
 void add_cmd(void){
   int i;
   int vid;
   Blob repo;
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