From: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 07:28:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] user-manual: Add section on ignoring files
Message-ID: <200705160928.00900.johan@herland.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vhcqdha4b.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Wednesday 16 May 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 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.

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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