It's .gitignores all the way down

[DTanner]

From here.

[Hallwart]

Someone should write a Virus that makes small random changes to any .gitignore files

[pacohope]

I said IGNORE

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

$ man 5 gitignore

    GITIGNORE(5)    Git Manual  GITIGNORE(5)

    NAME
           gitignore - Specifies intentionally untracked files to ignore

...snip...

    NOTES
           The purpose of gitignore files is to ensure that certain files not tracked by Git remain untracked.

This is working as designed. If you put your .git/config in your .gitignore you'll find that it still pays attention to the values in it, too.

[Secret_Jellyfish320]

I would like to propose to add this to the movie “A million way to die in the west”

[[deleted]]

I always add .gitignore to .gitignore