Re: [PATCH] optionally disable overwriting of ignored files

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 22, 2010, 07:25 UTC
Message-ID: <7viq335ct0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100821080512.GA30141@localhost>

Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at> writes:

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> I understand your point. But this is actually a great example. I
> have a bunch of such tests, which are not in shape for upstream,
> but I want to keep them around anyways (and run them). Do you
> really think that an untracked test which was added to
> .git/info/exclude should be considered trashable? If it were a
> generated file, it would have been added to .gitignore.

I agree that in such a workflow to keep untracked tests around, they should not be considered trashable. But more importantly, as I have already said, adding your untracked tests to exclude is a wrong thing to do.

Traditionally (think "git status" output without "-s") the way to remind oneself that some day these paths need to be added when they are ready has been to keep them untracked but _not_ ignored, so that they will be listed in the output.

Quite contrary to what you earlier said in another message, adding such a path that is not trashable does defeat the point of the "ignore" mechanism.