Rubenerd

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.

Update: Some Hacker News and Reddit readers have missed the silly tone or read this literally. This isn’t surprising! But I’ll endeavour to be a bit more overt with my nonsense in the future. Maybe I should have linked to yesterday’s Frog and Peach first.