title: git-gui disagrees with git status: why?
body: <p>I am just learning git, using git version 1.6.0.4.</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Created an eclipse wkspace, with a couple of projects in it.</li>
  <li>Created a git repos at the workspace root, using cli.</li>
  <li>Using cli added the two projects to git - at this point git status shows the following</li>
  </ul>
  
  <pre>
  bwinspur@elm:~/ca.wydv.workspaces/008-leaning-group/git-lrng-wksp$ git status
  # On branch master
  #
  # Initial commit
  #
  # Changes to be committed:
  #   (use "git rm --cached ..." to unstage)
  #
  #   new file: git.trial.help.bundle/.classpath
          === omitted details from this post ==   
  
  #   new file: git.trial.ui.bundle/.classpath
          === omitted details from this post ==   
  #
  # Untracked files:
  #   (use "git add ..." to include in what will be committed)
  #
  #   .metadata/
  bwinspur@elm:~/ca.wydv.workspaces/008-leaning-group/git-lrng-wksp$
  </pre>
  
  <p>which is what I expected: my project folders are tracked, and .metadata/ is untracked.</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>now I bring up git gui and it shows all the files under .metadata/ as 
  unstaged changes: why? git status thinks they are untracked.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Git-gui's disagreement with git status, seems like a git-gui bug to me. </p>
  
  <p>Am I misunderstanding something?
  Is there a workaround?
  Is there a better gui for git?</p>
  
  <p>Bill.</p>