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Re: first para of man gitignore should refer to 'git rm --cached'

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Nov 8, 2010, 20:17 UTC
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Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com> writes:
> I'm just saying that ignoring uncommitted changes to already tracked
> files is *not* the most common question I see when it comes to
> gitignore,...

I actually think it is much more commonly asked around here than "I added paths that I do not want by mistake and I mistakenly thought adding it to gitignore would make git forget it".

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  1. Sitaram ChamartyNov 7, 2010
  2. Ramkumar RamachandraNov 7, 2010
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