From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Josh McCullough <joshua.mccullough@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ignore updates to files which are ignored, even if they're indexed.
Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 08:38:51 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1605180830110.3477@virtualbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK-5vhzvuwteJgWSkAhAAFf9-L4FSs2o58yNF5rQQrrE231d3w@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Josh,
On Tue, 17 May 2016, Josh McCullough wrote:
> TL;DR: Git should ignore files if they are in `.gitignore`, regardless
> of whether or not the file has changed (or been removed).
This would break at least one of my setups, where I was too lazy to add
negative rules to .gitignore.
I imagine that I am not the only one relying on the current behavior.
Which means that you would need to tread very carefully should you choose
to work on this.
Besides, it sounds like you want certain files to be "tracked a little",
and at the same time be "untracked a little".
Maybe there is a better solution. Would you care to describe your use case
in more detail, in particular the goal?
Ciao,
Johannes
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2016-05-18 1:07 Ignore updates to files which are ignored, even if they're indexed Josh McCullough
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