On 23 September 2010 11:28, Abhijit Menon-Sen <a...@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 -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
