From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:07:52 GMT
Subject: Re: git bisect/checkout and changes to .gitignore
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In-Reply-To: <4FE44983.30209@viscovery.net>

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> wrote:
> Files mentioned in .gitignore are considered garbage. But your file is
> precious, hence, you should not list it in .gitignore.

An important distinction! Thanks for the thread pointer.

The --no-overwrite-ignore flag is part of what I want. It at least
gives protection against accidentally losing things (on Wednesday, I
unwittingly disposed of several large binary files, and didn't even
know about it until a chance discovery of directory size). Is there a
way to specify that this flag always be used, even when the checkout
doesn't happen on the command line but through (eg) git bisect?

Chris Angelico