Was finally able to check on one of my repos and git 2.34.1 most definitely does ignore . files by default (both git status and git add), unless you specify --i

Was finally able to check on one of my repos and git 2.34.1 most definitely does ignore . files by default (both git status and git add), unless you specify --ignore for git status or --force for git add. But my .gitignore (either for the clone or global core.excludesfile) doesn't specify that . files should be ignored, so why is it doing so? I can't see how to do a git add to add all new files, including dot files, except those in .gitignore.