Re: Feature Request - Hide ignored files before checkout

> Hi Chris,
>
> Yes, I don't think I have explained myself well enough.
>
> When I say "disappear" I do not mean "get deleted", I mean: go out of view
> just like foo.txt does, as it is committed to branchB and not merged into
> branchA.
>
> So I am saying that I think .gitignored files should behave partly like
> committed and un-merged files, in the sense that they disappear when
> checking out to a different branch.
> I don't want to commit these files (which would give me the behaviour I
> want), because they are binary/OS specific and really do not belong in the
> repository, BUT I need them to run/build certain committed files.
>
> To be concrete: I want ignore.txt to be ignored in branchB and hence
> disappear (in the same way that foo.txt will), when checking out to branchA.
> When I checkout back to branchB I want ignore.txt to reappear (in the same
> way that foo.txt will).
>
> I understand why this behaviour is not happening (because my .gitignore
> files are different between the branches), but I am saying that I would like
> to have the option to keep my .gitignore'd files local to the branch they
> are in.
>
> E.g. I currently have a branch with all these binary files that are required
> to run an application on my OS, but when I checkout to another branch I do
> not need or want those binary files anymore (at least not until I checkout
> back into the branch I just came from).
>
> Please tell me if that still doesn't make sense.