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That's my point, that `echo .gitignore > .gitginore` as advertised as "a cool hack" in the article can lead to disasters.
by acatton 4y ago
That's my point, that `echo .gitignore > .gitginore` as advertised as "a cool hack" in the article can lead to disasters.
- 58x14 4y agoI can't see how you'd interpret this as "advertising a cool hack." The entire original article: I initialised a new Git repository, and added a .gitignore file instructing git to ignore .gitignore: git init . echo ".gitignore" > .gitignore git status And the result: On branch trunk No commits yet nothing to commit (create/copy files and use "git add" to track) Therefore, we can see Git ignores .gitignore because its in .gitignore, which means it didn’t ignore .gitignore for instructions. Is any of this informative, surprising, or useful? … Absolutely.