From: John M. Dlugosz Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 01:58:16 GMT Subject: .gitignore not Message-ID: <29965-1335837520-563867@sneakemail.com> I'm running on Windows, using msysgit. I have some files that were supposed to be symbolic links, but don't come out that way. I see them as plain files containing a relative name of another file. To make things work, I copied the actual file over the would-be link. I don't want to check in that change. I set up a .gitignore, and it works for the directory in general, but three files that were symbolic links it keeps finding anyway: deleted symlink (for those that were directories) and binary files don't match (for a file). Even though those are under the directory I excluded with the .gitignore, it reports those anyway. How do I tell my local copy of git to really ignore those? I don't want to stage it by accident. —John