Re: Bug#553296: gitignore broken completely

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 30, 2009, 19:51 UTC
Message-ID: <7vvdhwk6dq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091030190552.GA3528@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 02:41:55PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
>
>> >    6. Revert the patch and rework it so that it will only have effect if
>> >       there is no -i option on the command line. (That is similiar to a
>> >       mix of 3 and 4.)
>> 
>> Yeah, that would actually be the least invasive change, and would keep
>> "-i" just as it is. If we do anything except a simple, I think your (6)
>> makes the most sense.
>> 
>> Let me see if I can make a patch.
>
> Here it is. I think this is the right thing to do. Junio?

I am not sure; my head spins when I see "tracked but ignored" (you have a new one in the test) which is quite a bogus concept.

Does it mean "tracked but would be ignored if it weren't---perhaps it was added by mistake?"?