Re: [PATCH] user-manual: Add section on ignoring files
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
- Date
- May 15, 2007, 23:24 UTC
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- <f2dffu$so6$2@sea.gmane.org>
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- <200705160047.52717.johan@herland.net>
Johan Herland wrote:
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> +A project will often generate files that you do 'not' want to track with git. > +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 might be > +annoying to have these untracked files automatically showing up in the > +output of "git status", in the commit message template, etc.
_And_ ignored files affect globbing and path patterns ("git add ." or "git add *.txt"would not add ignored files), and --all options ("git commit -a" would not commit changed but ignored files).
-- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git