angullar-cli dist folder updates ignored - can I force inclusion?

When I build my angular-cli application, the updated /dist files are in the VCS window's Ignored Files set when viewed in the Local Changes portion of the Version Control window:

My build is performed this way:

ng build --prod --aot

All of the files generated by that new build that appear in the Ignored Files list have the form

inline.<huge guid value>.bundle.js

or

main.<huge guid value>.bundle.js

or

main.<huge guid value>.bundle.js.gz

The huge problem this presents is that the updated index.html references those ignored files.

I have commented out this line in .gitignore ahead of time:

#/dist

Shouldn't that allow any newly generated (by ng build) /dist files to participate in the commit/push sequence I need to perform to deploy those changes to GitHub?

What step(s) am I missing or doing incorrectly that is causing this issue?

How can I automatically have any newly generated (by ng build) /dist files be included in any subsequent push/commit sequence?

Eventually, I'd like to automate this process, but I can't if I cannot trust that the latest /dist files will be pushed/committed.