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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 12, 2018, 10:26 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqk1li1thy.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <87o9au39s7.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

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

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> What I'd add to your list is:
>
> * Some projects (I've seen this in the wild) add e.g. *.mp3 or whatever
>   else usually doesn't belong in the repo as a "soft ignore". This is
>   something we've never recommended, but have implicitly supported since
>   the only caveats are a) you need a one-off "git add -f" and then
>   they're tracked b) them being missing from "status" before being
>   tracked c) the issue under discussion here.

Or only selected "*.o" (vendor supplied binary blob) kept tracked while everything else is built from the source.

I do not know who you are referring to "we" in your sentence, but as far as I am concerned, it has been and still is a BCP recommendation on this list to deal with a case like that.