From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:31:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add test that checkout does not overwrite entries in .git/info/exclude
Message-ID: <CACsJy8AM-NyCcoCO2ssdPEGKXT3ODcc4ObZTrjn8K+Tz61woTw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vfwhhgzcb.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:27 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> It dated back to f8a9d42 (read-tree: further loosen "working file will
>> be lost" check. - 2006-12-04) when you introduced --exclude-per-directory
>> to read-tree, but not --exclude-from to explicitly add .git/info/exclude.
>
> That one together with 1127148 (Loosen "working file will be lost" check
> in Porcelain-ish, 2006-12-04) complets the picture. Thanks for digging
> this out.
>
>> I guess it's time to add "read-tree --exclude-from".
>
> Perhaps, also --exclude-standard to match?

Yep, will do.
-- 
Duy