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

> Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> 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.