Re: Newbie falls at first hurdle

On Saturday 17 Sep 2005 17:50, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Alan Chandler [off-list ref] writes:

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The editor file that came up with this listed all the files it was going
to commit INCLUDING some .files from the root directory (I am using
eclipse, so I had files like .project and .classpath there).  It says in
the Documentation that git ignores those - has it done?

We ignore '.git' but we let you have paths starting with dots
these days -- the change happened quite a while ago and if some
documentation still says we do not, then you spotted a
documentation bug.

I think that is probably my problem.  I deleted all of /usr/local/bin (which 
had an earlier version of git in it) and then tried to re-install git 99.6.  
When I got a permissions error I gave up and installed into ~/bin.


But of course - that probably means that the man pages are old ones from when 
I last installed git (very early in the development cycle).

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Alan Chandler
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