[paulddraper]

Yeah this is wrong.

They will show the files in your repo.

gitignore just decides whether untracked files appear as new or ignored. (But you can commit them anyway if you are so inclined.)

[chrisweekly]

how do you commit a file without first adding it?

[JonathonW]

`git add -f` will add ignored files. Once you've done that, any files you've added will be part of your commit regardless of the contents of .gitignore.