From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS53758 23.128.96.0/24 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 156B51F852 for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2022 09:04:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232696AbiAOJED (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Jan 2022 04:04:03 -0500 Received: from bsmtp2.bon.at ([213.33.87.16]:61335 "EHLO bsmtp2.bon.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S232658AbiAOJEC (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Jan 2022 04:04:02 -0500 Received: from [192.168.0.98] (unknown [93.83.142.38]) by bsmtp2.bon.at (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4JbXKD334Tz5tl9; Sat, 15 Jan 2022 10:04:00 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <5f6f1dba-a923-4bb9-70a7-4936566f46e0@kdbg.org> Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2022 10:03:46 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.4.1 Subject: Re: A new feature command request `cmd_ignore` Content-Language: en-US To: Elijah Newren Cc: Git Mailing List , Jaydeep Das References: <11860e44-beff-39e6-2efc-53324223caee@gmail.com> From: Johannes Sixt In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Am 15.01.22 um 06:17 schrieb Elijah Newren: > On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 3:03 PM Jaydeep Das wrote: >> and other parameters like `--force` >> could be added which would delete that file cache if that >> file was already committed. > > I don't understand what you mean by this. I think that is a paraphrase of the suggestion to git rm --cached settings echo settings >> .gitignore when changes to a file 'settings' that was already tracked (and often contains user-specific settings) should be ignored. This misguided and short-sighted "solution" is repeated numerous times on Stackoverflow. Not something that we should encourage. -- Hannes