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Dmitry Kakurin <dmitry.kakurin@gmail.com> writes:

> So I want to be able to say to git: don't track this file, but don't delete it either (even with clean -x).
> What do you think? Does it make sense? Can it be done right now?

I've said that we would need .precious in addition to .ignore;
no objection at all, except "even with clean -x" part which may
be a controversial detail.

Can it be done right now?  Of course not.  That is definitely a
post 1.5.3 item.

But the beauty of the distributednes of git is that _you_ can
start working on it without disturbing anybody else nor worrying
about the stabilization freeze period.

Me, personally I would prefer to see people spending their time
to find regressions in -rc and fixing them before the release,
though...