From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: git bisect/checkout and changes to .gitignore Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 10:42:44 -0700 Message-ID: <7vbokbqm3v.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <4FE44983.30209@viscovery.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Chris Angelico , git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Sixt X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jun 22 19:42:53 2012 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 1Si7si-00046M-1W for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:42:52 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756246Ab2FVRms (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:42:48 -0400 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:39025 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755964Ab2FVRmr (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:42:47 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 844F174D4; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:42:46 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=fPscc7pSzLEymo9Xy1mA3ZOU9iI=; b=GNKud4 fKvHWxr4JG2EavBzakIYf7D3OkCclOW/HhQKVa8L4bFXTKUXBJOxU/wWRy2anY99 m7e2tnzxghZXlI4rrjWg3mxqUVGsoNMH0BmB9N49T6O6NoMfRT5R8OZy4e21cWz6 rxQ0UptCgUpG/V1QsD2CgxPSuA/j/5G3aukoM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=aBRnsqW3g9HX99jZGfCdbILzeuPkgleN XE6c2ebJ1mRfemMJDkDFEk/bS+smbq/pNwN945xGDIyTaisVuZjZdPTcMz9MiSE4 dJ5yHmXHBZeTwtABDbcH6QtDupPVKALde1CfW9D9RI8Mk+2Ce3M8ZmOK37r2uvfZ kDIUm1oTlXk= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B2FA74D3; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:42:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [98.234.214.94]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0EB8174D2; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:42:45 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <4FE44983.30209@viscovery.net> (Johannes Sixt's message of "Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:31:31 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: AD3F80F2-BC91-11E1-B42E-FC762E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Johannes Sixt 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.