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Re: Extending .gitignore

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 18, 2007, 10:00 UTC
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Dmitry Kakurin <dmitry.kakurin@gmail.com> writes:
> So I want to be able to say to git: don't track this file, but don't delete it either (even with clean -x).
> What do you think? Does it make sense? Can it be done right now?

I've said that we would need .precious in addition to .ignore; no objection at all, except "even with clean -x" part which may be a controversial detail.

Can it be done right now? Of course not. That is definitely a post 1.5.3 item.

But the beauty of the distributednes of git is that _you_ can start working on it without disturbing anybody else nor worrying about the stabilization freeze period.

Me, personally I would prefer to see people spending their time to find regressions in -rc and fixing them before the release, though...

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