Re: git refuses to switch to older branches

From: Alex Riesen <fork0@t-online.de>
Date: Aug 20, 2006, 07:26 UTC
Message-ID: <20060820072612.GA6003@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vac601hbb.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano, Sun, Aug 20, 2006 00:39:20 +0200:

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> Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> writes:
> 
> > This safety measure is quite useful normally, but for files that are
> > explicitly marked as to-be-ignored it should not be neccessary.
> >
> > But all the code that handles .gitignore is only used by ls-files now.
> > Does it make sense to add exclude handling to unpack-trees.c, too?
> 
> In principle, I am not opposed to the idea of making read-tree
> take the ignore information into consideration.
> 
> But I would suggest you to be _extremely_ careful if you want to

It should be optional. And off by default, people already have got scripts depending on this behaviour (well, I have).

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> try this.  I do not have an example offhand, but I would not be
> surprised at all if there is a valid use case where it is useful
> to have a pattern that matches a tracked file in .gitignore
> file.
>

Ignored directory and but some files/subdirectories in it are tracked, because this is temporary or externally changed data (I have both examples).