On 23 September 2010 11:28, Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org> wrote:
>> This seems pretty dangerous, especially for people who are willing to
>> rely on "git commit -a" :-(
>
> There is no danger. "git commit -a" will commit changes to files that
> match .gitignore but are already in the repository. (I vaguely remember
> that there were bugs in this regard in old versions of git, but it's not
> a problem with any recent version AFAIK.)
>
Right; .gitignore patterns are only applied to untracked files. Once
a file is tracked by git, you can try to gitignore it all you like, it
won't have any effect.
Cheers,
BJ
