From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC0CF1F87F for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2018 13:02:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729480AbeKLWzg (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Nov 2018 17:55:36 -0500 Received: from pb-smtp2.pobox.com ([64.147.108.71]:55453 "EHLO pb-smtp2.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729173AbeKLWzg (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Nov 2018 17:55:36 -0500 Received: from pb-smtp2.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47B651069BF; Mon, 12 Nov 2018 08:02:23 -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:content-transfer-encoding; s=sasl; bh=a/UjhSjO8Vr+ OCiFsJuMQFFaD3c=; b=oifMkjLnDfhNAeaq7BlVDX1Bt7lVd/D0/mvH9BqUJFYP ihcU0LD9CELJXcRnJyBqaylqlLhT03nQZZJn/ObGj2zUCYYSQlqQUDv9rIqSH6Eh 0CfN9HSdNhfe4c4LMF2ycE0nU6jFMsKiVcdvtXtYVj3bzVmXQnBKq+icFWeH/cQ= 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:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=sasl; b=dZGxR1 YLc/ADQJhZ3UqEwX9DZko2p4c5qZc59/aX/3Ya77jZ7vyklXcMLOYdtfCQpBznbD cUjewiOcXUUQ2I7P2LCnA308RvwQJoGsZ605LpUOnh4NcfGI+nvEbh2fp9BLtVkF Wqz0JbeKpQbHgaTbbk0iVa0i9HGWL+3o/7Z3c= Received: from pb-smtp2.nyi.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DF861069BD; Mon, 12 Nov 2018 08:02:23 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [104.155.68.112]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 96A541069BC; Mon, 12 Nov 2018 08:02:22 -0500 (EST) From: Junio C Hamano To: =?utf-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsA==?= Bjarmason Cc: Matthieu Moy , Per Lundberg , Duy Nguyen , Git Mailing List , jost@tcs.ifi.lmu.de, Joshua Jensen , Clemens Buchacher , "Holger Hellmuth \(IKS\)" , Kevin Ballard Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Introduce "precious" file concept References: <875zxa6xzp.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> <20181111095254.30473-1-pclouds@gmail.com> <871s7r4wuv.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> <591ab1f7-ef39-13e5-83b8-76fe372ecc2c@hibox.tv> <1205132135.1189562.1542013731020.JavaMail.zimbra@matthieu-moy.fr> <87o9au39s7.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> <87in1231o2.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2018 22:02:21 +0900 In-Reply-To: <87in1231o2.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> (=?utf-8?B?IsOGdmFyIEFy?= =?utf-8?B?bmZqw7Zyw7A=?= Bjarmason"'s message of "Mon, 12 Nov 2018 13:45:01 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 31D71F04-E67B-11E8-A636-BFB3E64BB12D-77302942!pb-smtp2.pobox.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org =C3=86var Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0 Bjarmason writes: >> Or only selected "*.o" (vendor supplied binary blob) kept tracked >> while everything else is built from the source. >> ... > But it also does get used for "mostly we don't want this file, but > sometimes we do" use-case, so that's something we need to deal with in > practice. Exactly. "Mostly we don't want *.o as we prefer to build from the source, but we have only object files for some selected ones" is an often cited use case where it is the BCP to have *.o in .gitignore and use "add -f" to add the "selected" ones initially.