Problems with .gitignore

It looks like cg-status does not really use .gitignore:

[10:14] srsyg01:walderlift% cat .gitignore *.~* *.aux Design/Programmieredoku/kapitel.lof Design/Programmieredoku/kapitel.log Design/Programmieredoku/kapitel.lot Design/Programmieredoku/kapitel.out Design/Programmieredoku/kapitel.pdf Design/Programmieredoku/kapitel.toc *.conf *.dcp *.dcu *.ddp *.dpu *.kof *.res *.so Code/Components/Utilities/lw1tools Code/lw1/Client/lw1.log Code/lw1/Client/lw1client Code/lw1/lw1SyTestsystem

[10:15] srsyg01:walderlift% cg-status| grep -e '.so$' -e '.dcu$' -e '.dcp$' ? Code/Components/ColoredDBComponents/ColDB.dcp ? Code/Components/ColoredDBComponents/bplColDB.~so ? Code/Components/Planner/QPlanPkgK3.dcp ? Code/Components/Planner/bplQPlanPkgK3.so ? Code/Components/Utilities/LW1Tools.dcp ? Code/Components/Utilities/Utilities.dcp ? Code/Components/Utilities/bplLW1Tools.so ? Code/Components/Utilities/bplUtilities.so ? Code/Components/rpman21d/bplrppack.~so ? Code/Components/rpman21d/bplrppackv.~so ? Code/Components/rpman21d/rppack.dcp ? Code/Components/rpman21d/rppackv.dcp ? Code/Components/zeosdbo/packages/kylix3/bplZComponent.~so ? Code/Components/zeosdbo/packages/kylix3/bplZCore.~so ? Code/Components/zeosdbo/packages/kylix3/bplZDbc.~so ? Code/Components/zeosdbo/packages/kylix3/bplZParseSql.~so ? Code/Components/zeosdbo/packages/kylix3/bplZPlain.~so

Why does that happen?

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