Johan Herland <johan@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > +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 quickly becomes > +annoying to have these untracked files lying around; e.g. they make > +"`git add .`" and "`git commit -a`" practically useless, and they keep I think we would want to s/and "`git commit -a`//; if you start tracking the file, .gitignore would not interfere with it AFAIK. Other than that, Acked-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> - 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