[Zlib-devel] configure script

[Charles Wilson]

On 9/17/2011 3:22 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> 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."

Well, that just re-inforces my point: autogenerated files should not be
tracked, and those that currently are should be removed -- because if
they ARE tracked, there's no way to ignore any changes to them; such
changes will always be considered "diffs" and included in 'git commit
-a' actions.

--
Chuck