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Feature idea: Ignore content

From
Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 19, 2010, 13:29 UTC
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<f3271551001190529h389ce321k52dcca6b03e4e8f0@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,

Often, I find that I need to track a file which contains a small portion I don't want to track (read: line with a password). Instead of moving that out to a separate file and ignoring that file, is it a good idea to add a feature to Git to allow ignoring content instead of whole files? Since Git by nature tracks content, this shouldn't be too hard to implement, right?

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