Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] gitfaq: files in .gitignore are tracked

Shourya Shukla <shouryashukla.oo@gmail.com> writes:

I do not think this much text is warranted in this file.

The first part of Documentation/gitignore.txt *ought* to cover this material and it does say "specifies intentionally untracked files" and "already tracked byt Git are not affected". Read that paragarph twice, and then jump to the NOTES section it refers two and also read that twice. Then let's work on polishing these places if there is anything unclear. I think what we have there is clear enough.

And then trim the text we see here down. The way the question is phrased may be good as-is (I trust that you researched to make sure that is how the question is most frequently phrased). The answer should be just "see gitignore(5)", or perhaps repeat the first paragraph of gitignore(5) and then refer to the page, i.e. no more than

    [[files-in-.gitignore-are-tracked]]
    I asked Git to ignore various files, yet they are still tracked::
            A `gitignore` file specifies intentionally untracked files
            that Git should ignore.  Files already tracked by Git are
            not affected.  See linkgit:gitignore[5] for details.

should be in the FAQ file.