Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-check-ignore.txt: Clarify exit codes

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:21:19 -0800

Florian Hassanen <[email-masked]> writes:

> Maybe your global ignore file gets in the way?

No, as I do not have one.

> is one of a.o and vendor.o already in your index?

Bingo.  I did "git add ." to see if the .gitignore file is doing the
right thing before running that demonstration.

It smells like you spotted a bug in the behaviour, not a bug in the
documentation, at least to me.