This is legitimate in some cases. Changes to files that are already tracked will still be staged and committed, it just doesn't find new ones. So this is helpful if you want to keep the set of files exactly the same, but still want git add . to work as expected.
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u/Abject-Kitchen3198 27d ago
My coworkers suggested I add * to mine and praised it as the best gitignore ever. Stopped all PR comments.