Re: [PATCH] user-manual: Add section on ignoring files

[Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>]

On Wednesday 16 May 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Johan Herland wrote:
> 
> > +A project will often generate files that you do 'not' want to track with git.
> > +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 might be
> > +annoying to have these untracked files automatically showing up in the
> > +output of "git status", in the commit message template, etc.
> 
> _And_ ignored files affect globbing and path patterns ("git add ." or
> "git add *.txt"would not add ignored files), and --all options 
> ("git commit -a" would not commit changed but ignored files).

Yes, of course. I forgot about that "minor" point...


Have fun!

...Johan

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