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Hi all,

We have a MadCap Flare project that is source-controlled by Git. We also have a .gitignore file in the root folder of the project. The file has been set up by hand and needs to be left untouched by Flare, because the project is quite complex, consisting of many sub-projects. Flare's automatic process for .gitignore files cannot handle all of this correctly, however it tries, every time, to make changes to this file.

We were attentive enough and placed our custom lines below the # Add items to be ignored below mark, however Flare still attempts modifying them.

Is there any way of preventing Flare from making changes to the .gitignore file? Any changes?

Hi,

Have you found a way to prevent Flare from updating the .gitignore file?
In my case, I want to have my custom .gitignore inside the project folder, and I want to include it in source control, but Flare keeps adding the line to the top level gitignore that excludes my custom file.