From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:29:40 GMT
Subject: Re: How to deal with mixed tree?
Message-ID: <7vk46sdn8r.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4ECB8917.8010305@ira.uka.de>

Holger Hellmuth <hellmuth@ira.uka.de> writes:

> (see "Bug report - local (and git ignored) file silently removed after
> checkout" on the mailing list why exclude is better than .gitignore at
> the moment)

Don't look at it or encourage people to rely on that bug to be
fixed. exclude and .gitignore should behave the same way.