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diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 43f4e392fd..f421689942 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -1128,8 +1128,8 @@ This typically includes files generated by a build process or temporary backup files made by your editor. Of course, 'not' tracking files with git is just a matter of 'not' calling "`git-add`" on them. But it quickly becomes annoying to have these untracked files lying around; e.g. they make -"`git add .`" and "`git commit -a`" practically useless, and they keep -showing up in the output of "`git status`". +"`git add .`" practically useless, and they keep showing up in the output of +"`git status`". You can tell git to ignore certain files by creating a file called .gitignore in the top level of your working directory, with contents such as: |