From: Ben Aveling <bena.001@optusnet.com.au>
To: Jason Wenger <jcwenger@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Files excluded but not ignored
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2013 10:54:58 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <510C55D2.20103@optusnet.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v38ximyr2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
On 31/01/2013 3:17 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jason Wenger <jcwenger@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Trying to start up discussion of whether there would be merit to a "half-
>> ignored" state -- Files which are excluded from tracking, but which still
>> show in git status, and which are removed by git clean.
> I see no merit for "ignored and never to be tracked, but are still
> shown loudly in the untracked list" myself. Use cases for "ignored
> and never to be tracked, but not expendable" class were mentioned
> often in the past, though.
A new state seems over the top.
Jason, would adding a parameter to "git status" telling it to ignore all
.gitignores give you what you need?
Regards, Ben
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-01 23:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-30 15:34 Files excluded but not ignored Jason Wenger
2013-01-30 16:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-02-01 23:54 ` Ben Aveling [this message]
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