From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: [PATCH] user-manual: Add section on ignoring files Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 01:24:48 +0200 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <200705160047.52717.johan@herland.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 16 01:25:24 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 1Ho6ON-0002xT-Cq for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 01:25:19 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756359AbXEOXZN (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 May 2007 19:25:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756616AbXEOXZN (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 May 2007 19:25:13 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:35312 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756359AbXEOXZL (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 May 2007 19:25:11 -0400 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Ho6O6-0003qB-C7 for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 01:25:02 +0200 Received: from host-89-229-25-173.torun.mm.pl ([89.229.25.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 01:25:02 +0200 Received: from jnareb by host-89-229-25-173.torun.mm.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 01:25:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-89-229-25-173.torun.mm.pl Mail-Copies-To: Jakub Narebski User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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). -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git