Re: [PATCH] Documentation: enhance gitignore whitelist example

Eric Blake wrote:

No, I don't believe that's true.

 $ git add -f git.o
 $ >git.o
 $ git add git.o

.gitignore only protects against starting to track a file that was previously untracked.

I do tend to use exceptions in .gitignore anyway, since (1) it allows, as a sanity check,

 $ git ls-files -i --exclude-standard

and (2) to import from or compare to a tarball, one can do

 $ git rm -rf .
 $ git add .