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From: "Elijah Newren" <newren@gmail.com>
To: "Changsheng Jiang" <jiangzuoyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric Raible" <raible@gmail.com>,
	"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: perhaps a "new file" should not be deleted by "git reset --hard"
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:32:33 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51419b2c0809110932r4e8c833fx740ccb0c8e46f0af@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eafc0afe0809102305u6de85ef3ib2c08004dea8d6f9@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:05 AM, Changsheng Jiang
<jiangzuoyan@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know what version of you git, my git with version 1.5.4.5
> doesn't delete the file file42 after git-reset.

He stated the same with his version.  The point wasn't the behavior of
git reset, but of git reset --hard.

> BTW, if you added the file42 to .gitignore, why git-status still
> reported "new file" file42"?

>From the gitignore(5) manpage:

"Note that all the gitignore files really concern only files that are
not already tracked by git; in order to ignore uncommitted changes in
already tracked files, please refer to..."

Once you run git add, the file is tracked (unless you do something to
explicitly stop tracking it).


Hope that helps,
Elijah

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-09-11 16:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-10 19:12 RFC: perhaps a "new file" should not be deleted by "git reset --hard" Eric Raible
     [not found] ` <eafc0afe0809101912v72916d3hce9ae5d6812f0db8@mail.gmail.com>
2008-09-11  2:14   ` Changsheng Jiang
2008-09-11  2:38     ` Elijah Newren
2008-09-11 20:50       ` Eric Raible
2008-09-11 21:34         ` Junio C Hamano
2008-09-11 22:19           ` Eric Raible
2008-09-11 23:04             ` Jeff Whiteside
2008-09-11 23:29               ` Eric Raible
2008-09-11  2:46   ` Eric Raible
2008-09-11  6:05     ` Changsheng Jiang
2008-09-11  6:15       ` RFC: perhaps a Eric Raible
2008-09-11 16:32       ` Elijah Newren [this message]
     [not found]         ` <3ab397d0809111022m24c81bd9y2520f6be478babd3@mail.gmail.com>
2008-09-11 21:24           ` RFC: perhaps a "new file" should not be deleted by "git reset --hard" Eric Raible
2008-09-11 23:39             ` Miklos Vajna
2008-09-11 23:49               ` Eric Raible
2008-09-12 15:41                 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-09-11  6:14 ` Mike Hommey
2008-09-11 20:26   ` Eric Raible

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