Eric Blake wrote: > Yeah, but then you have to 'git add -f path/to/file' them every time you > change them No, I don't believe that's true. $ git add -f git.o $ >git.o $ git add git.o .gitignore only protects against starting to track a file that was previously untracked. I do tend to use exceptions in .gitignore anyway, since (1) it allows, as a sanity check, $ git ls-files -i --exclude-standard and (2) to import from or compare to a tarball, one can do $ git rm -rf . $ git add . -- 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