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Re: Feature Request - Hide ignored files before checkout

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Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 10, 2012, 09:47 UTC
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On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 3:01 AM, Matthew Ciancio <matthew.ciancio16@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for explaining that Andrew. I guess that was my intention: to have an "ignored file snapshot", but I can see now that it goes against Git's definitions and is not really needed.
>

I have played around with the idea of backing up files deleted by git-clean in the object database, maintained by a reflog (similar to git-stash). I did this to protect my code against my fat fingers, but perhaps this could also have been useful in your case?

https://github.com/kusma/git/tree/work/clean-backup
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  3. Junio C HamanoDec 9, 2012
  4. Matthew CiancioDec 9, 2012
  5. Andrew ArdillDec 10, 2012
  6. Matthew CiancioDec 10, 2012
  7. Erik Faye-LundDec 10, 2012
  8. Chris RorvickDec 9, 2012
  9. Matthew CiancioDec 9, 2012

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