From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:42:44 GMT
Subject: Re: git bisect/checkout and changes to .gitignore
Message-ID: <7vbokbqm3v.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4FE44983.30209@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:

> Here is a thread that is worthwhile to read. I posted a patch
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/185724/focus=185733
>
> but it was dismissed, see
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/185724/focus=185746

Thanks.

Two thoughts and a half.

 - For people who do not want to read the above, the patch in the
   former was not a change to the code, but was a demonstration to
   exploit a bug in .git/ignore/exclude handling.

 - The latter message above outlined a future direction to properly
   handle "ignored" vs "precious" distinction.

 - There probably are other "here is a way forward" messages in the
   list archive whose visions haven't been materialized. Is anybody
   collecting these? I suspect that such a collection would be far
   more useful than a typical bug tracker that nobody looks at.