From: Alan Chandler Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 17:01:35 GMT Subject: Re: Newbie falls at first hurdle Message-ID: <200509171801.35612.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <7v1x3n8wps.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> On Saturday 17 Sep 2005 17:50, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Alan Chandler writes: > > 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). -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk