Symlinked files not in .gitignore

[shineability]

On this page it says:

By default the installer will add any modules you install to a .gitignore file in the magento-root-dir. When un-installing a module it will also remove those entries.

Doesn't seem to work however and I really don't want the symlinked files in my repository.
The doc describes how to disable this behavior, so I assume it should work like this by default.

What am I missing here?

[Flyingmana]

nice page, but probably scraped from an old version.

The readme now says you have to explicite enable it, and it does not mention cleanup after uninstall.
I remember we had problems with bugs there, and so switched to a more simple implementation.

Hope that helps a bit.