From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 10:13:13 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add test that checkout does not overwrite entries in .git/info/exclude
Message-ID: <CACsJy8AXLBNSPmeEJjD1QX2zF1ic+S9kb_+4=EBO9xd07xhAYQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vk46th5bz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> In the medium term, I think one reasonable way forward solving the "TODO
> that used to be tracked but now untracked and ignored" issue is to
> introduce "info/exclude-override" that comes between command line and
> in-tree patterns. The info/exclude file is designed as the fallback
> definition to be used when all other sources are too lax, and comes near
> the precedence stack; the "TODO" situation however calls for an override
> that is stronger than the in-tree patterns.

Short term, should we allow an option to disregard ignored status
(i.e. all files are precious)? Something like [2/2]

[1/2] checkout,merge: loosen overwriting untracked file check based on
info/exclude
[2/2] checkout,merge: disallow overwriting ignored files with
--no-overwrite-ignore
-- 
Duy