From: Eckhard Maaß <eckhard.s.maass@googlemail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 16:02:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Introduce "precious" file concept
Message-ID: <20181126160226.GA20885@esm>
In-Reply-To: <20181112232209.GK890086@genre.crustytoothpaste.net>

On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 11:22:09PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> This is going to totally hose automation.  My last job had files which
> might move from tracked to untracked (a file that had become generated),
> and long-running CI and build systems would need to be able to check out
> one status and switch to the other.  Your proposed change will prevent
> those systems from working, whereas they previously did.

Wouldn't those systems not use -f right now? And shouldn't Git have the
same semantic for -f to clobber everything in the proposed use case?
Like it does right now for untracked files which are not ignored. So to
be save going back and forth I would expect those systems to use -f
anyway. Have I missed something here?

Regards,
Eckhard