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From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: ignored file can be deleted silently
Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 21:18:15 +0700
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On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Daniele Segato <daniele.bilug@gmail.com> wrote:
> I noticed that when i put a file in the git ignore If i switch to a
> branch where the file is present and versioned git delete my local
> ignored file replacing it with the content of the branch I switched
> this is done silently and the file is gone forever if I don't have a
> copy somewhere

This is on purpose. Commit f8a9d42 (read-tree: further loosen "working
file will be lost" check. - 2006-12-04) allowed ignored files to be
overwritten. Perhaps we can have a config to tighten the check again?
-- 
Duy