# HG changeset patch
# User Adrian Buehlmann <adrian@cadifra.com>
# Date 1341181882 -7200
# Node ID d8c76c82d012f974450bd787cc9c2406e2d562b2
# Parent  b52d08b930c5f53dcc9aa3a66717c84470b2f276
help: explain effect of .hgignore on tracked files

diff -r b52d08b930c5 -r d8c76c82d012 mercurial/help/hgignore.txt
--- a/mercurial/help/hgignore.txt	Sun Jul 01 10:06:16 2012 +0200
+++ b/mercurial/help/hgignore.txt	Mon Jul 02 00:31:22 2012 +0200
@@ -33,6 +33,11 @@
 commands support the ``-I`` and ``-X`` options; see
 :hg:`help <command>` and :hg:`help patterns` for details.
 
+Files that are already tracked are not affected by .hgignore, even
+if they appear in .hgignore. An untracked file X can be explicitly
+added with :hg:`add X`, even if X would be excluded by a pattern
+in .hgignore.
+
 Syntax
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