From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Bug report - local (and git ignored) file silently removed after checkout Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:36:42 -0800 Message-ID: <7vzkfqgn91.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <7vehx2ijf8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20111120221930.GF14902@foodlogiq3-xp-d620.thebe.ath.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Bertrand BENOIT , git@vger.kernel.org To: Taylor Hedberg X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Nov 21 04:36:53 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RSKgb-0000cF-Tv for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2011 04:36:50 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755450Ab1KUDgr (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:36:47 -0500 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:45380 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755315Ab1KUDgq (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:36:46 -0500 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86F9D61FC; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:36:45 -0500 (EST) 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=QmVVRFr6lXQj/uL8lUTDph/gO7M=; b=DC50rM dnYtheNA6COe5+A6mHzLcht+uyWw/5brSngdXDBTcimEhnHqgKkhNxZ02n7e6vcT onf36qtUVvhWpA2Z7L/ukyuXBUN4HUrIqeo5cyLL0Rnbfpy2XE7ZmA8edUs+G1C8 lamvt0z4IxRGa352bgx2xWcKXj6v5W4O4hZKo= 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=sELG9lQF457EdP1TkNc8QmhWP4PI58JF 44zZx5azgU1xndBXlWBKtj4UQgJgkAizef+3MxrmoR6lLK7MglW6+BSweI5+faiw 5B5erMMxTSbKPUUcrI9bIFFNr9JSFbWuNRF80VdgcnS3kIAYZZaiy8J9lf6znhHi iabDLKivH7w= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F2B561FB; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:36:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [76.102.170.102]) (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 09B9A61FA; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:36:43 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20111120221930.GF14902@foodlogiq3-xp-d620.thebe.ath.cx> (Taylor Hedberg's message of "Sun, 20 Nov 2011 17:19:30 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 08532E42-13F2-11E1-8635-9DB42E706CDE-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: Taylor Hedberg writes: > Junio C Hamano, Sun 2011-11-20 @ 13:16:27-0800: >> We do not have "not tracked, but precious (e.g. your TODO)" category; >> from time to time we have discussed possibilities of adding such to >> enrich the categorization, but nobody stepped up to actually do the >> work of designing let alone coding such a beast. > > If I'm not mistaken, files ignored by .git/info/exclude rather than > .gitignore do exhibit this behavior. As far as I am aware, info/exclude should work exactly the same as having a .gitignore file at the root level of the working tree. Can you show a minimum reproduction recipe in a form of a patch to our test scripts in t/ hierarchy?