Hi,

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Mark Burton wrote:

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> Hi Francis,
> 
> > You must "git add .gitignore" first. And yes, this is by design.
> 
> Err, that's a bit odd isn't it because "git add" stages the content into 
> the index but the whole point of specifying files on the command line to 
> "git commit" is to commit the changes in the specified files while 
> ignoring what's currently in the index (so says the man page for 
> commit).

It may be a traditional wart, but a helpful one.  Remember, you can also 
say:

	git commit that/directory/

I do _not_ want Git to add all untracked (and unignored) files in that 
directory automatically.

Ciao,
Dscho

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