From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 19:20:21 GMT
Subject: Re: first para of man gitignore should refer to 'git rm --cached'
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In-Reply-To: <7vbp5zpo2d.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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...