From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2018 16:14:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Introduce "precious" file concept
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:
> +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