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| author | Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> | 2008-08-07 01:22:00 +0400 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2008-08-09 00:17:08 +0400 |
| commit | 7be73ae94e6dac3d1c41268a13b02ff7203c0631 (patch) | |
| tree | 3b294bae554d5be051301d43e0dee3dff8996ea8 /Documentation/user-manual.txt | |
| parent | ba24e7457aa1f958370bbb67dfb97e3ec806fd4a (diff) | |
Documentation: user-manual: "git commit -a" doesn't motivate .gitignore
"git commit -a" ignores untracked files and follows all tracked
files, regardless of whether they are listed in .gitignore. So
don't use it to motivate gitignore.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/user-manual.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/user-manual.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 43f4e392fd..f421689942 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -1128,8 +1128,8 @@ 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 quickly becomes annoying to have these untracked files lying around; e.g. they make -"`git add .`" and "`git commit -a`" practically useless, and they keep -showing up in the output of "`git status`". +"`git add .`" practically useless, and they keep showing up in the output of +"`git status`". You can tell git to ignore certain files by creating a file called .gitignore in the top level of your working directory, with contents such as: |