thanks a lot. It was exactly what I was seaching (and havent' read yet ;) ) best regards Le lundi 10 août 2020 à 07:56 +0200, René Scharfe a écrit : > Am 07.08.20 um 02:02 schrieb Jeff King: > > > > On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 10:23:54PM +0200, René Scharfe wrote: > > > > > > > > So "file" is no longer ignored. Committing the .gitignore change > > > doesn't change that: > > > > > > $ git add .gitignore > > > $ git commit -m 2nd > > > [master d4c95a1] 2nd > > > 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) > > > $ git status > > > On branch master > > > Untracked files: > > > (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed) > > > file > > > > > > nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track) > > > > > > Which steps did you take to arrive at a different result? > > Perhaps also: > > > > git check-ignore -v file > > > > would be helpful for seeing why Git thinks it might be ignored (e.g., > > another wildcard rule that happens to match it). > Right. And there is more than one possible place to specify files to be > ignored. E.g. you can use info/exclude in your Git directory (i.e. > .git/info/exclude by default) for repository-specific patterns don't > want to share. See https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore or the manpage > of gitignore(5) for more details. > > René