On Wednesday 16 May 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > 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. You're right. "git commit -a" doesn't actually add untracked files at all (you still have to do "git add", anyway). Don't know what I was thinking. Feel free to edit. ...Johan -- Johan Herland, <johan@xxxxxxxxxxx> www.herland.net - 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
