From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:19:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] optionally disable overwriting of ignored files
Message-ID: <7vpqx8x9te.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100824072854.GA22951@localhost>

Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at> writes:

> The fact that files in .gitignore are considered trashable, and the
> ones in .git/info/exclude are not.

Is that a fact?

There may be a subtle bug in the ignore handling code.  The entries in
these various places are never meant to produce different behaviours.