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From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Subject: Feature idea: Ignore content
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:59:27 +0530
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Hi,

Often, I find that I need to track a file which contains a small
portion I don't want to track (read: line with a password). Instead of
moving that out to a separate file and ignoring that file, is it a
good idea to add a feature to Git to allow ignoring content instead of
whole files? Since Git by nature tracks content, this shouldn't be too
hard to implement, right?