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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Cc: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git bisect/checkout and changes to .gitignore
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 10:42:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vbokbqm3v.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FE44983.30209@viscovery.net> (Johannes Sixt's message of "Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:31:31 +0200")

Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:

> Here is a thread that is worthwhile to read. I posted a patch
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/185724/focus=185733
>
> but it was dismissed, see
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/185724/focus=185746

Thanks.

Two thoughts and a half.

 - For people who do not want to read the above, the patch in the
   former was not a change to the code, but was a demonstration to
   exploit a bug in .git/ignore/exclude handling.

 - The latter message above outlined a future direction to properly
   handle "ignored" vs "precious" distinction.

 - There probably are other "here is a way forward" messages in the
   list archive whose visions haven't been materialized. Is anybody
   collecting these? I suspect that such a collection would be far
   more useful than a typical bug tracker that nobody looks at.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-06-22 17:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-22  7:51 git bisect/checkout and changes to .gitignore Chris Angelico
2012-06-22 10:31 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-06-22 12:07   ` Chris Angelico
2012-06-22 17:42   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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