[Zlib-devel] configure script

[Jonathan Nieder]

Charles Wilson wrote:

> Yes, that too.  However, if you leave zconf.h and Makefile in the
> repository, then ONLY adding them to .gitignore means that you can't
> modify them even if you want to -- unless you first /remove/ their name
> from .gitignore temporarily.

That's not how .gitignore works.  gitignore files are useful for
avoiding accidentally tracking generated files, but once they are
tracked, .gitignore won't help you.

In other words, as the gitignore(5) manpage says: "Files already
tracked by git are not affected; see the NOTES below for details."

Hope that helps,
Jonathan