Re: [PATCH] user-manual: Add section on ignoring files

On Wednesday 16 May 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Johan Herland [off-list ref] writes:

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+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.

You're right. "git commit -a" doesn't actually add untracked files at all 
(you still have to do "git add", anyway). Don't know what I was thinking.
Feel free to edit.


...Johan

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