The real WTF here is that you are using a workdir as your live dir. If you treat git as a *source* manager like it is, you'd also have an installer that would copy the resulting files into their live locations, and could be edited to either leave that newly untracked file alone, or deliberately remove it. Use git as intended, and you get no problems. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html