Re: [RFC] Define "precious" attribute and support it in `git clean`

From: Sebastian Thiel <sebastian.thiel@icloud.com>
Date: Oct 23, 2023, 07:15 UTC
Message-ID: <918D0772-CDEE-4892-828E-BD8A06C3F1F4@icloud.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqmswjsv8c.fsf@gitster.g>

On 16 Oct 2023, at 8:02, Sebastian Thiel wrote:

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> I don't know if this time will be different as I can only offer to implement
> the syntax adjustment, whatever that might be (possibly after validating
> the candidate against a corpus of repositories), along with the update
> to `git clean` so it leaves precious files alone by default and a new flag
> to also remove precious files.

I am happy to announce this feature can now be contributed in full by me once you give it a go. This would mean that the entirety of `git` would become aware of precious files over time.

To my mind, and probably out of ignorance, it seems that once the syntax is decided on it's possible for the implementation to start. From there I could use Elijah's analysis to know which parts of git to make aware of precious files in addition to `git clean`.

I am definitely looking forward to hearing from you :).