Re: [PATCH] user-manual: Add section on ignoring files

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: May 16, 2007, 00:42 UTC
Message-ID: <7vhcqdha4b.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <200705160231.40486.johan@herland.net>

Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> writes:

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> +This typically includes files generated by a build process or temporary
> +backup files made by your editor. Of course, 'not' tracking files with git
> +is just a matter of 'not' calling "`git add`" on them. But it quickly becomes
> +annoying to have these untracked files lying around; e.g. they make
> +"`git add .`" and "`git commit -a`" practically useless, and they keep

I think we would want to s/and "`git commit -a`//; if you start tracking the file, .gitignore would not interfere with it AFAIK.

Other than that,

	Acked-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>