Johan Herland wrote:
+A project will often generate files that you do 'not' want to track with git.
+This typically includes files generated by a build process or temporary
+backup files made by your editor. Of course, 'not' tracking files with git
+is just a matter of 'not' calling "git add" on them. But it might be
+annoying to have these untracked files automatically showing up in the
+output of "git status", in the commit message template, etc.
_And_ ignored files affect globbing and path patterns ("git add ." or
"git add *.txt"would not add ignored files), and --all options
("git commit -a" would not commit changed but ignored files).
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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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