From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 23:57:43 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] t3700: note a .gitignore matching fault Message-ID: <7vd3jzgww8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy writes: > Yes. But git still silently ignores some rules in the .gitignore. Do you want git to report each and every entry in .gitignore saying "this rule does not apply"? That sounds like madness to me.