Re: [RFC PATCH] Introduce "precious" file concept

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 12, 2018, 13:02 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqbm6u1maq.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <87in1231o2.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

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>> Or only selected "*.o" (vendor supplied binary blob) kept tracked
>> while everything else is built from the source.
>> ...
> But it also does get used for "mostly we don't want this file, but
> sometimes we do" use-case, so that's something we need to deal with in
> practice.

Exactly. "Mostly we don't want *.o as we prefer to build from the source, but we have only object files for some selected ones" is an often cited use case where it is the BCP to have *.o in .gitignore and use "add -f" to add the "selected" ones initially.

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