From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 23:24:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] user-manual: Add section on ignoring files
Message-ID: <f2dffu$so6$2@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <200705160047.52717.johan@herland.net>

Johan Herland wrote:

> +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