From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 22:32:33 GMT
Subject: Re: git pull not ignoring the file which has been sent to the temporary ignore list
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kaNHjAna3PBxMEfZV1dfZnoohst1Ky5aSkCi+v4NBcN=w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq4mrhqgl4.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:
>
>> Assuming you want to ignore less than the upstream project (delete some
>> lines from .gitignore) it get's tricky in my opinion.
>
> Why?  Doesn't info/exclude allow negative ignore patterns?

I used negative patterns only once, so they did not come to my mind today.
Apologies for not looking it up before replying. :(