From: Holger Hellmuth Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:27:00 GMT Subject: Re: Push from specific directory. Message-ID: <4F707CB4.3030308@ira.uka.de> In-Reply-To: <4F6C970B.2010803@gmail.com> On 23.03.2012 16:30, Neal Kreitzinger wrote: > You would want to setup the gitignore before doing the init. Why that? "git init" doesn't add any files, the repo is still empty. I would even say "git init" helps because you get a comprehensive list of non-ignored files with "git status" and can sift through that list for files you want to be ignored