Brandon McCaig <bamccaig@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > That is for your benefit, and for easily sharing that configuration > with collaborators. Git only cares that the file exists in your > working tree at run-time. It is a lot more than "for sharing". If you made .gitignore only effective after it gets committed, you cannot test your updated version of .gitignore is correct before committing the change. -- 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