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by wazari972 1500 days ago
exactly,

> Therefore, we can see Git ignores .gitignore because its in .gitignore, which means it didn’t ignore .gitignore for instructions.

> Is any of this informative, surprising, or useful? … Absolutely.

it's interesting to notice, but nothing surprising. git isn't supposed to ignore it for instructions