From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Wenger Subject: Files excluded but not ignored Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 15:34:42 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jan 30 16:40:16 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U0Zlk-0007n5-0Q for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:40:12 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753020Ab3A3Pjt (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:39:49 -0500 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:39901 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753398Ab3A3Pjs (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:39:48 -0500 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U0Zlc-0007gR-N9 for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:40:05 +0100 Received: from oproxy2.rockwellcollins.com ([205.175.225.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:40:04 +0100 Received: from jcwenger by oproxy2.rockwellcollins.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:40:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 205.175.225.22 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/24.0.1312.56 Safari/537.17) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I prefer to not add core.* files to my ignore listings because I find it helpful to see them in git status -- It helps me notice and clean them up periodically. Not having them ignored is also good ,because it allows git clean to care of core.* files. The problem is that git add -A, git stash -u, etc, remain interested in the core files. Trying to start up discussion of whether there would be merit to a "half- ignored" state -- Files which are excluded from tracking, but which still show in git status, and which are removed by git clean. Not trying to propose yet how .git/exclude or .gitignore would be formatted or anything like that. Just looking for opinions on whether such a state would be considered by the community as a good thing and merit the added complexity in the code.