ybur-yug/git_thing.md

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export GIT_EDITOR=vim
mkdir foobar
cd foobar
git init
touch .gitignore
echo "*.rb" >> .gitignore
git add .gitignore
vim .git/index

And you see:

And now:

git commit

Same thing, different file!

index just gives you this message then git carries it on. Kind of fun if you ever wondered where such things came from.