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Prevent deleting .gitignore file

Subject: Prevent deleting .gitignore file

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baluchen· Feb 16, 2011, 09:29 UTC · lore

Friends,

Is there anyway to prevent/modify .gitignore file?

Thanks Bala

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Ramkumar Ramachandra· Feb 16, 2011, 10:32 UTC · re: baluchen · lore

Re: Prevent deleting .gitignore file

Hi,

baluchen writes:

> Is there anyway to prevent/modify .gitignore file?

Just track it in Git? Everytime you try to stage changes and commit, Git will alert you when .gitignore has changed.

-- Ram

Bert Wesarg· Feb 16, 2011, 11:53 UTC · re: Ramkumar Ramachandra · lore

Re: Prevent deleting .gitignore file

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:32, Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> baluchen writes:
>> Is there anyway to prevent/modify .gitignore file?
>
> Just track it in Git? Everytime you try to stage changes and commit,
> Git will alert you when .gitignore has changed.

And writing a pre-commit-hook, which checks for changes to .gitignore.

Bert

>
> -- Ram