From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 21:41:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: enhance gitignore whitelist example
Message-ID: <20110405214114.GA13729@elie>
In-Reply-To: <4D9B8862.1050605@redhat.com>

Eric Blake wrote:

> Yeah, but then you have to 'git add -f path/to/file' them every time you
> change them

No, I don't believe that's true.

 $ git add -f git.o
 $ >git.o
 $ git add git.o

.gitignore only protects against starting to track a file that was
previously untracked.

I do tend to use exceptions in .gitignore anyway, since (1) it allows,
as a sanity check,

 $ git ls-files -i --exclude-standard

and (2) to import from or compare to a tarball, one can do

 $ git rm -rf .
 $ git add .