develwoutacause’s avatardevelwoutacause’s Twitter Archive—№ 492

  1. What is the use case for the "untracked" state in #Git? Either I want a file tracked, or it's in .gitignore (whether in-repo, global, or user-specific). We already have "unstaged" for files I don't want to commit right now, so why do we need a separate "untracked" concept?