From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Cc: Taylor Hedberg <tmhedberg@gmail.com>,
Bertrand BENOIT <projettwk@users.sourceforge.net>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add test that checkout does not overwrite entries in .git/info/exclude
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:50:08 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vsjlhhq33.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EC9FC81.3080306@viscovery.net> (Johannes Sixt's message of "Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:23:45 +0100")
Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:
> It is a lucky accident: it allows the distinction between "untracked but
> precious" and "untracked and garbage". And it is a doubly lucky accident:
> .gitignore entries are meant for files like build products, which usually
> affect all consumers of a repository, whereas .git/info/exclude is
> intended for personal files, which frequently are precious (think of a
> TODO file).
> ...
> Here you are. As you can see from my commit message, IMO, this is
> a very useful accident. Therefore, there is no 'test_expect_failure'
> in the test script :-)
Heh.
If this is a feature, we would like a patch to Documentation/gitignore.txt
as well, I think. Also I have a suspicion that this was an unintended
"regression"; do you have a bisection?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-21 7:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-20 13:42 Bug report - local (and git ignored) file silently removed after checkout Bertrand BENOIT
2011-11-20 21:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-11-20 22:19 ` Taylor Hedberg
2011-11-21 3:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-11-21 7:23 ` [PATCH] Add test that checkout does not overwrite entries in .git/info/exclude Johannes Sixt
2011-11-21 7:45 ` Philip Oakley
2011-11-21 7:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-11-21 7:50 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2011-11-21 8:52 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-11-21 17:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-11-23 11:31 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-11-21 8:17 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-11-21 15:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-11-21 15:44 ` Bertrand BENOIT
2011-11-23 11:40 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-11-23 17:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-11-24 1:35 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-11-24 5:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-11-24 5:39 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-11-27 10:13 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-11-27 10:15 ` [PATCH 1/2] checkout,merge: loosen overwriting untracked file check based on info/exclude Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2011-11-27 10:15 ` [PATCH 2/2] checkout,merge: disallow overwriting ignored files with --no-overwrite-ignore Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2011-11-29 18:17 ` [PATCH 1/2] checkout,merge: loosen overwriting untracked file check based on info/exclude Junio C Hamano
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