From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:47:04 GMT
Subject: Re: Feature Request - Hide ignored files before checkout
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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