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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/gitignore.txt: Clarify gitignore vs tracked files
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:16:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vabgggyuc.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20080717163622.12592.29919.stgit@localhost

Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:

> -git should ignore.  Each line in a `gitignore` file specifies a
> -pattern.
> +git should ignore.
> +Note that all the `gitignore` files really concern only files
> +that are not already tracked by git; there is no direct mechanism
> +to make git ignore your local modifications in already tracked files.

Thanks.

I'd suggest dropping everything after ';'.

 - If you want to keep local changes without ever checking in, you can do
   so by making partial commits.

 - You could mark these paths "assume unchanged".

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-17 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-17 16:36 [PATCH] Documentation/gitignore.txt: Clarify gitignore vs tracked files Petr Baudis
2008-07-17 18:16 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-07-17 18:26   ` Petr Baudis
2008-07-18 14:11     ` [PATCH] Documentation: How to ignore local changes in " Petr Baudis

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