From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 00:42:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] user-manual: Add section on ignoring files
Message-ID: <7vhcqdha4b.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <200705160231.40486.johan@herland.net>

Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> writes:

> +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>