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 3784E1F87F for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2018 10:26:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726841AbeKLUT1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Nov 2018 15:19:27 -0500 Received: from pb-smtp2.pobox.com ([64.147.108.71]:62341 "EHLO pb-smtp2.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725873AbeKLUT1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Nov 2018 15:19:27 -0500 Received: from pb-smtp2.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 519AE1049DF; Mon, 12 Nov 2018 05:26:51 -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=OnD8qDoJ7G01 +2LU4+hawr6AgzE=; b=v1MDJl428/5+CKKD/JJxNGlE/6WQE7kCO3FNOboPiPBu bkPW86mB63ybpopoEXHC28IugLzygoHRY87lnkFkYbnxNntWXDctX/6/jSF1qw1o cQvF+tI4CO3bFZqTDSST55BYRvLhupyQztEGZKG4oVqSZ/4KaQpXMJ3G+MwzKJc= 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=DQL+Ub Y+1Ztw51D+t9QFGDe29WNdZvIlIsqsjSCr2G6POI05kZocE0Ad16kBd5m17d/b7j QFD5a9s0hW0GviCaXTWXUlDI2+lEjmGxoT5SJ/P/W1rvewlmN0eFA+p3e8MGo0F5 eeqogIQ0MbccpzPn52Whfld7EJWBQTxQDSFWk= Received: from pb-smtp2.nyi.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 491251049DE; Mon, 12 Nov 2018 05:26:51 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [35.187.50.168]) (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 AD0381049DD; Mon, 12 Nov 2018 05:26:50 -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> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2018 19:26:49 +0900 In-Reply-To: <87o9au39s7.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> (=?utf-8?B?IsOGdmFyIEFy?= =?utf-8?B?bmZqw7Zyw7A=?= Bjarmason"'s message of "Mon, 12 Nov 2018 10:49:44 +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: 77969404-E665-11E8-A226-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: > What I'd add to your list is: > > * Some projects (I've seen this in the wild) add e.g. *.mp3 or whatever > else usually doesn't belong in the repo as a "soft ignore". This is > something we've never recommended, but have implicitly supported sinc= e > the only caveats are a) you need a one-off "git add -f" and then > they're tracked b) them being missing from "status" before being > tracked c) the issue under discussion here. Or only selected "*.o" (vendor supplied binary blob) kept tracked while everything else is built from the source. I do not know who you are referring to "we" in your sentence, but as far as I am concerned, it has been and still is a BCP recommendation on this list to deal with a case like that.