From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 03:36:42 GMT
Subject: Re: Bug report - local (and git ignored) file silently removed after checkout
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In-Reply-To: <20111120221930.GF14902@foodlogiq3-xp-d620.thebe.ath.cx>

Taylor Hedberg <tmhedberg@gmail.com> writes:

> Junio C Hamano, Sun 2011-11-20 @ 13:16:27-0800:
>> We do not have "not tracked, but precious (e.g. your TODO)" category;
>> from time to time we have discussed possibilities of adding such to
>> enrich the categorization, but nobody stepped up to actually do the
>> work of designing let alone coding such a beast.
>
> If I'm not mistaken, files ignored by .git/info/exclude rather than
> .gitignore do exhibit this behavior.

As far as I am aware, info/exclude should work exactly the same as having
a .gitignore file at the root level of the working tree. Can you show a
minimum reproduction recipe in a form of a patch to our test scripts in t/
hierarchy?