From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 07:50:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add test that checkout does not overwrite entries in .git/info/exclude
Message-ID: <7vsjlhhq33.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4EC9FC81.3080306@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:

> It is a lucky accident: it allows the distinction between "untracked but
> precious" and "untracked and garbage". And it is a doubly lucky accident:
> .gitignore entries are meant for files like build products, which usually
> affect all consumers of a repository, whereas .git/info/exclude is
> intended for personal files, which frequently are precious (think of a
> TODO file).
> ...
> Here you are. As you can see from my commit message, IMO, this is
> a very useful accident. Therefore, there is no 'test_expect_failure'
> in the test script :-)

Heh.

If this is a feature, we would like a patch to Documentation/gitignore.txt
as well, I think.  Also I have a suspicion that this was an unintended
"regression"; do you have a bisection?