From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 00:45:21 GMT
Subject: Re: Change in .gitignore handling: intended or bug?
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In-Reply-To: <xmqq7fhcjxt8.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> It is between (1) the current code is good enough ...
> or (2) the half-way implementation we
> have does not give enough advancement ... and we
> are better off reverting the whole thing to go back to 2.7.2
> behaviour, planning to do a better job in the next cycle.
>
> I was hoping that (1) would be the case.

Oh and of course I still am--otherwise I wouldn't have been
attempting these documentation updates.  I just wanted to make sure
that I covered most (if not all) of the corner cases that we know
the current code does not work by documenting workarounds.