Johan Herland [off-list ref] writes:
+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 quickly becomes
+annoying to have these untracked files lying around; e.g. they make
+"`git add .`" and "`git commit -a`" practically useless, and they keep
I think we would want to s/and "`git commit -a`//; if you start
tracking the file, .gitignore would not interfere with it AFAIK.
Other than that,
Acked-by: Junio C Hamano [off-list ref]