Re: [RFC PATCH] Introduce "precious" file concept

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 12, 2018, 16:14 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8BDjNW-eGMDiwpm0WKKe69dmQLDf=sO6-bC4zuC+hPURQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87zhuf3gs0.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 2:06 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:

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> +Trashable files
> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> +
> +`trashable`
> +^^^^^^^^^^
> +
> +Provides an escape hatch for re-enabling a potentially data destroying
> +feature which was enabled by default between Git versions 1.5.2 and
> +2.20. See the `NOTES` section of linkgit:gitignore[5] for details.

How does this interact with "git clean -x"? Most ignored files will not have trashable attribute, so we don't remove any of them? Making "git clean" completely ignore this attribute is also possible, I guess, if we rename it somehow to avoid confusion.

-- 
Duy

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