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Re: gitignore design

From
Ferry Huberts <mailings@hupie.com>
Date
Jul 29, 2011, 12:08 UTC
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On 07/29/2011 02:01 PM, llucianf wrote:
> sorry but this is not always the case. there are plenty of cases (project
> files is most common example) in which i need files in repo but i do not
> need git to track them. so why i cant just simply enumerate those project

this is a contradiction: you want them tracked (they're in the repo) but you do not want them tracked.

you can't have it both ways.
git works this way.
 git != cvs
-- 
Ferry Huberts
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