From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 19:16:47 GMT
Subject: Re: .gitignore does not ignore Makefile
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.