From: Alex Riesen Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 07:26:12 GMT Subject: Re: git refuses to switch to older branches 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: > Martin Waitz 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). > 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).