[PATCH v5 1/4] gitfaq: files in .gitignore are tracked

From

Shourya Shukla <shouryashukla.oo@gmail.com>

Date

May 4, 2020, 05:42 UTC

Message-ID

<20200504054223.11125-1-shouryashukla.oo@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Shourya Shukla <shouryashukla.oo@gmail.com>
---
Thank you Junio and Elijah for the review! :)
I have tried to make the solutions to the issues as concise and crisp
as possible, linking the Documentation wherever necessary. Also, I have
converted 1SP -> 2 SP after full stops(.).

 Documentation/gitfaq.txt | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/gitfaq.txt b/Documentation/gitfaq.txt
index 1cf83df118..11d9bac859 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitfaq.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitfaq.txt
@@ -223,6 +223,16 @@ a file checked into the repository which is a template or set of defaults which
 can then be copied alongside and modified as appropriate.  This second, modified
 file is usually ignored to prevent accidentally committing it.
 
+[[files-in-.gitignore-are-tracked]]
+I asked Git to ignore various files, yet they are still tracked::
+	A `gitignore` file ensures that certain file(s) which are not
+	tracked by Git remain untracked.  However, sometimes particular
+	file(s) may have been tracked before adding them into the
+	`.gitignore`, hence they still remain tracked.  To untrack and
+	ignore files/patterns, use `git rm --cached <file/pattern>`
+	and add a pattern to `.gitignore` that matches the <file>.
+	See linkgit:gitignore[5] for details.
+
 Hooks
 -----
 

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