Johan Herland wrote: > +A project will often generate files that you do 'not' want to track with git. > +This typically includes files generated by a build process or temporary > +backup files made by your editor. Of course, 'not' tracking files with git > +is just a matter of 'not' calling "git add" on them. But it might be > +annoying to have these untracked files automatically showing up in the > +output of "git status", in the commit message template, etc. _And_ ignored files affect globbing and path patterns ("git add ." or "git add *.txt"would not add ignored files), and --all options ("git commit -a" would not commit changed but ignored files). -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - 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