From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:57:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] optionally disable overwriting of ignored files
Message-ID: <7veidp2ufh.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100823151146.GA15379@localhost>

Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at> writes:

> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 03:56:39PM +0200, Holger Hellmuth wrote:
>> 
>> You've got my vote. This is the only option that combines safety with
>> minimal configuration hassle.
>> 
>> I didn't know about this subtle difference between .gitignore and
>> .git/info/exclude. And while this makes sense I expect a sizable
>> percentage of users will never even know that .git/info/exclude exists.
>
> I don't know if this subtle difference was even intentional.

I am sorry, what difference are you talking about?