From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: How to deal with mixed tree? Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:29:40 -0800 Message-ID: <7vk46sdn8r.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <4ECB8917.8010305@ira.uka.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Pascal Obry , Git Mailing List To: Holger Hellmuth X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Nov 22 19:29:54 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 1RSv6M-0004Eb-0s for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:29:50 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754336Ab1KVS3o (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:29:44 -0500 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:45080 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752970Ab1KVS3n (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:29:43 -0500 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F8EE5800; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:29:42 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=erWDgU7Nj3QGFdcTCWQubbRDX00=; b=IZyJ6B 4hKPIwoSOI0NUuereSOORHrqDxQqY2fdeVSncKNwP4p0l+99ZFWAze5gvqI+T/rq yo0NLPaE8wWuEdJg6/9YHxl07jjhgyYfnrZPXquWwdJ2M7XxGeTwbtkWzcMIAVH/ 5L1hyuwUomlDj7BPlxf/xvsZwhCabbDWjvs/Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=NAmq4NL/7yWSZ3hvWc85RMLcThtnXiAt TZwSsgOc4/g1ugTB+9Ge/wg9U0Z3poLKiDsynzYOQ5VkYxS4Stjka/ufefeZpeNs 8MOSJZz/qW0BGvUM/oppRdmeRXncjuR/i00vmKDe6l1HHX0W2+66Zs4ltWI32E5e 1KnSEb7grSU= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6676C57FF; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:29:42 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [76.102.170.102]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DD8FB57FE; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:29:41 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <4ECB8917.8010305@ira.uka.de> (Holger Hellmuth's message of "Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:35:51 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: F1A29EF2-1537-11E1-B244-9DB42E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Holger Hellmuth writes: > (see "Bug report - local (and git ignored) file silently removed after > checkout" on the mailing list why exclude is better than .gitignore at > the moment) Don't look at it or encourage people to rely on that bug to be fixed. exclude and .gitignore should behave the same way.