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Re: RFC: perhaps a "new file" should not be deleted by "git reset --hard"

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Changsheng Jiang <jiangzuoyan@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 11, 2008, 02:14 UTC
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I think the current behavior is better than you described. If you want to ignore some files, you can added it to the exclude file. All files not excluded in the repo directory is maintained by git.

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