The sentence seems to imply that "git commit -a" will automatically add untracked but not explicitely ignored files, which is not true. Since there's no real problem with git commit -a and untracked files, it's better not mentionning it here. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxx> --- Documentation/user-manual.txt | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 06ab79f..91df0ff 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -1095,7 +1095,7 @@ 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 +"`git add .`" practically useless and they keep showing up in the output of "`git status`". You can tell git to ignore certain files by creating a file called .gitignore -- 1.5.3.1.20.gb250f - 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
