From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Prevent deleting .gitignore file
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:02:17 +0530
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Hi,

baluchen writes:
> Is there anyway to prevent/modify .gitignore file?

Just track it in Git? Everytime you try to stage changes and commit,
Git will alert you when .gitignore has changed.

-- Ram