On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 12:44 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Sitaram, > > Sitaram Chamarty writes: >> It's an FAQ that "why doesn't my gitignore work" when the files in >> question had already been added earlier, usually in error. ÂThe most >> common remedy, I believe, is "git rm --cached" followed by a commit. > > Er, no. The documentation says "in order to ignore uncommitted changes > in already tracked files". `git rm --cached` removes the file from the > index altogether- when the change is committed, Git will actually stop > tracking it. I agree. I'm just saying that ignoring uncommitted changes to already tracked files is *not* the most common question I see when it comes to gitignore, and am asking if it is worth putting what I believe is the real FAQ in the first para, and move the assume-unchanged stuff further down the page. Sorry if I didn't say that clearly enough before. -- 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