Hi Francis, > You must "git add .gitignore" first. And yes, this is by design. Err, that's a bit odd isn't it because "git add" stages the content into the index but the whole point of specifying files on the command line to "git commit" is to commit the changes in the specified files while ignoring what's currently in the index (so says the man page for commit). Cheers, Mark -- 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