Re: .gitignore does not ignore Makefile

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 22, 2016, 19:16 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqtwd74ue8.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <57E4267B.1050507@codeaurora.org>

Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org> writes:

> So .gitignore only ignores new files, not modified ones?

It is determines if an untracked file should be considered by "git add" to add it or ignore it.

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