Re: git refuses to switch to older branches

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Aug 19, 2006, 22:39 UTC
Message-ID: <7vac601hbb.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060819202558.GE30022@admingilde.org>

Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> writes:

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> 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 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.