Comment by vanyle

I think the issue comes from the practice of always running "git add ." from the cli. As a git gui user [1], I see exactly what files I stage, so this is a non-issue.

Also, the .gitignore file can document what files you are supposed to have in your project and where they come from

[1]: I'm currently a happy Fork user after having tried Sublime Merge, Git Kraken and lazygit.