From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 23:21:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-check-ignore.txt: Clarify exit codes
Message-ID: <xmqqa92tdb80.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAMAJHBYVMy-tc_aCjyeN7=VMG=k7gjWh9evL6bcJLzYfQcf6yg@mail.gmail.com>

Florian Hassanen <florian.hassanen@gmail.com> writes:

> Maybe your global ignore file gets in the way?

No, as I do not have one.

> is one of a.o and vendor.o already in your index?

Bingo.  I did "git add ." to see if the .gitignore file is doing the
right thing before running that demonstration.

It smells like you spotted a bug in the behaviour, not a bug in the
documentation, at least to me.