Document that .gdignore files' contents are ignored

community/asset_library/submitting_to_assetlib.rst

@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ library a better place for all users.
   :ref:`doc_gdscript_styleguide` or the :ref:`doc_c_sharp_styleguide`.
 
 * If you have screenshots in your repo, place them in their own subfolder
-  and add a **.gdignore** file in the same folder (note: **gd**, not **git**).
+  and add an empty **.gdignore** file in the same folder (note: **gd**, not **git**).
   This prevents Godot from importing your screenshots.
   On Windows, open a command prompt in the project folder and run
   ``type nul > .gdignore`` to create a file whose name starts with a period.

tutorials/best_practices/project_organization.rst

@@ -85,10 +85,11 @@ This can be useful to speed up the initial project importing.
     command prompt: ``type nul > .gdignore``
 
 Once the folder is ignored, resources in that folder can't be loaded anymore
-using the ``load()`` and ``preload()`` methods.
+using the ``load()`` and ``preload()`` methods. Ignoring a folder will also
+automatically hide it from the FileSystem dock, which can be useful to reduce clutter.
 
-Ignoring a folder will also automatically hide it from the FileSystem dock,
-which can be useful to reduce clutter.
+Note that the ``.gdignore`` file's contents are ignored, which is why the file
+should be empty. It does not support patterns like ``.gitignore`` files do.
 
 .. _doc_project_organization_case_sensitivity:
 

tutorials/scripting/creating_script_templates.rst

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ extensions must be ``gd`` and ``cs`` respectively.
 .. note:: The script templates have the same extension as the regular script
           files. This may lead to an issue of a script parser treating those templates as
           actual scripts within a project. To avoid this, make sure to ignore the
-          directory containing them by creating a ``.gdignore`` file. The directory won't be
+          directory containing them by creating an empty ``.gdignore`` file. The directory won't be
           visible throughout the project's filesystem anymore, yet the templates can be
           modified by an external text editor anytime.