From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ferry Huberts Subject: Re: gitignore design Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:51:55 +0200 Message-ID: <4E329EDB.6040007@hupie.com> References: <1311934832699-6632987.post@n2.nabble.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: llucianf X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jul 29 13:52:05 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qmlbn-0005Js-Nw for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:52:04 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754754Ab1G2Lv6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jul 2011 07:51:58 -0400 Received: from 82-197-206-98.dsl.cambrium.nl ([82.197.206.98]:52278 "EHLO mail.hupie.dyndns.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752574Ab1G2Lv6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jul 2011 07:51:58 -0400 Received: from stinkpad.internal.hupie.com (82-197-206-98.dsl.cambrium.nl [82.197.206.98]) by mail.hupie.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B1FF58BD75; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:51:56 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110707 Thunderbird/5.0 In-Reply-To: <1311934832699-6632987.post@n2.nabble.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 07/29/2011 12:20 PM, llucianf wrote: > why gitignore doesnt simply work like in cvs where if you put something in > the ignore file, those stuff are simply ignored from that point without > having to remove them from repo? > because when it's in the repo you obviously want to track it... tracking trumps ignoring if you now suddenly do not want to track it anymore you have to remove it and ignore it. -- Ferry Huberts