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

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Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
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Nov 9, 2010, 19:20 UTC
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On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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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".

I'm surprised. That is something only advanced users are likely to need, while the one I mentioned would appear to be a much more neophyte mistake.

Perhaps it's the difference between the folks that come to #git and those that come to the mailing list.

But case closed I guess...
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  1. Sitaram ChamartyNov 7, 2010
  2. Ramkumar RamachandraNov 7, 2010
  3. Sitaram ChamartyNov 8, 2010
  4. Junio C HamanoNov 8, 2010
  5. Sitaram ChamartyNov 9, 2010
  6. Jonathan NiederNov 9, 2010

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