Fair, “fresh clone” was wrong. It happens on a new machine or container without the global ignore, in a copied project folder, or once the file has been committed, since ignore rules don’t apply to tracked files.
replyWhy are you copying instead of git clone?
replyThe new wave of git users (coming from AI) don't know what git is.
replyI wonder how many of this type are 'senior/principle software engineers' employed by our AI vendor overlords. This situation is the inevitable result of vocal VCs (ahem) poo pooing "age" and "experience" and promoting youth as a 'requirement' starting in the '00s, coupled with these same VCs now attempting to hijack an entire industry to run on their obviously immature and buggy and frankly possibly dangerous products.
replyThe silver lining in all this is all of us very experienced "ancient" software practitioners will likely be in demand again. In a sane world, of course.
In that case what relevance does the gitignore file have at all?
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