From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johan Herland Subject: Re: [PATCH] user-manual: Add section on ignoring files Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 01:31:40 +0200 Message-ID: <200705160131.40772.johan@herland.net> References: <200705160047.52717.johan@herland.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: Jakub Narebski To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 16 01:31:51 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ho6Uh-00041f-5t for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 01:31:51 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758039AbXEOXbo (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 May 2007 19:31:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757558AbXEOXbn (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 May 2007 19:31:43 -0400 Received: from smtp.getmail.no ([84.208.20.33]:44869 "EHLO smtp.getmail.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756051AbXEOXbn (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 May 2007 19:31:43 -0400 Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.no-osl-m323-srv-009-z2.isp.get.no by no-osl-m323-srv-009-z2.isp.get.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) id <0JI300001W0TMX00@no-osl-m323-srv-009-z2.isp.get.no> for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 01:31:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.getmail.no ([10.5.16.1]) by no-osl-m323-srv-009-z2.isp.get.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JI300CSLW0TY750@no-osl-m323-srv-009-z2.isp.get.no> for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 01:31:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from alpha.herland ([84.210.6.167]) by no-osl-m323-srv-004-z1.isp.get.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JI30050AW0TNVK0@no-osl-m323-srv-004-z1.isp.get.no> for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 01:31:41 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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 -- Johan Herland, www.herland.net