Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] Introduce precious files

[Mirko Faina <mroik@delayed.space>]

On Thu, Oct 08, 2026 at 02:06:56PM +0200, Mirko Faina wrote:
> Introduce precious files based on Elijah Newren's document [1].
> 
> With this series documentation is not updated yet but I wanted some feedback
> before polishing and moving on to implement the changes for "git clean".
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.1627.git.1703643931314.gitgitgadget@gmail.com/
> 
> [1/6] precious-files.txt: new document proposing new precious file type (Elijah Newren)
> [2/6] dir.h: replace pattern macros with enum in attr.h (Mirko Faina)
> [3/6] dir.c: teach parse_path_pattern() precious files (Mirko Faina)
> [4/6] dir.c: teach add_pattern() reject precious pattern (Mirko Faina)
> [5/6] unpack-trees: teach check_ok_to_remove() precious (Mirko Faina)
> [6/6] builtin/ls-files.c: support for precious files (Mirko Faina)
> 
>  Documentation/technical/precious-files.txt | 540 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  attr.c                                     |   8 +-
>  attr.h                                     |  10 +-
>  builtin/check-ignore.c                     |   1 +
>  builtin/clean.c                            |   4 +-
>  builtin/ls-files.c                         |  75 ++-
>  builtin/sparse-checkout.c                  |  16 +-
>  dir.c                                      | 144 +++++-
>  dir.h                                      |  51 +-
>  t/helper/test-path-walk.c                  |   2 +-
>  t/t1091-sparse-checkout-builtin.sh         |   8 +
>  t/t2205-add-worktree-config.sh             |   2 +-
>  t/t3001-ls-files-others-exclude.sh         |  27 ++
>  t/t7508-status.sh                          |   9 +
>  unpack-trees.c                             |   7 +-
>  15 files changed, 849 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/technical/precious-files.txt
> 
> -- 
> 2.56.0

I forgot to specify the base. The series is based on c46c1e3772 (Start Git 2.98
cycle, 2026-09-30).