From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ferry Huberts Subject: Re: gitignore design Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:08:50 +0200 Message-ID: <4E32A2D2.9060007@hupie.com> References: <1311934832699-6632987.post@n2.nabble.com> <4E329EDB.6040007@hupie.com> <1311940877783-6633274.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 14:09:02 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 1QmlsA-0004cx-7v for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:08:58 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755704Ab1G2MIx (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jul 2011 08:08:53 -0400 Received: from 82-197-206-98.dsl.cambrium.nl ([82.197.206.98]:53313 "EHLO mail.hupie.dyndns.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755619Ab1G2MIw (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jul 2011 08:08:52 -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 2DD0858BD75; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:08:51 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110707 Thunderbird/5.0 In-Reply-To: <1311940877783-6633274.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 02:01 PM, llucianf wrote: > sorry but this is not always the case. there are plenty of cases (project > files is most common example) in which i need files in repo but i do not > need git to track them. so why i cant just simply enumerate those project this is a contradiction: you want them tracked (they're in the repo) but you do not want them tracked. you can't have it both ways. git works this way. git != cvs -- Ferry Huberts