Re: [lmi] Did I resolve this git issue correctly?

[Greg Chicares]

On 2016-12-07 20:56, Greg Chicares wrote:
[...]
> 'git status' shows I'm up to date except for this:
> 
> Untracked files:
>   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
>       .rate_table.cpp.swp
> 
> At first I thought it might be a git file that could contain something
> important, as 'rate_table.cpp' was indeed part of the merge I did above;
> but 'file' says it's not:
> 
> /opt/lmi/src/lmi[0]$file .rate_table.cpp.swp 
> .rate_table.cpp.swp: Vim swap file, version 7.3
> 
> Would it be a mistake if, in reliance on 'file', I ignore the '.swp' file
> as being some vim artifact that has nothing to do with git?

I found the answer. I forgot that I had 'rate_table.cpp' open in a
vim session elsewhere. I didn't actually want to change that file,
so I did ':q!' and the 'swp' file disappeared.