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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Per Lundberg" <per.lundberg@hibox.tv>,
	"Steffen Jost" <jost@tcs.ifi.lmu.de>,
	"Joshua Jensen" <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com>,
	"Matthieu Moy" <git@matthieu-moy.fr>,
	"Clemens Buchacher" <drizzd@gmx.net>,
	"Holger Hellmuth" <hellmuth@ira.uka.de>,
	"Kevin Ballard" <kevin@sb.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Introduce "precious" file concept
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 14:39:12 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqo976ultb.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8B15hORnaOdYW8TNE3Gniv9NBJopyLYmHR5iF0U3beq6g@mail.gmail.com> (Duy Nguyen's message of "Wed, 20 Feb 2019 16:41:51 +0700")

Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> There is a trade off somewhere. "new user first" should not come at
> the cost for more experienced users.

Probably.  Nobody will stay being newbie forever.

> Making "git checkout/merge" abort while it's working before breaks
> scripts. And requiring to mark trashable files manually duplicates a
> lot of ignore patterns. Have a look at any .gitignore file, the
> majority of them is for discardable files because "ignored" class was
> created with those in mind (*.o and friends).

Very true.  That is why we were OK for so long with "ignored" that
means "ignored and expendable".  We know in some situations we want
"ignored but precious", and that is why we are discussing this topic.

> So now you would need to
> add more or less the same set of ignore rules in .gitattributes to
> mark them trashable, and gitignore/gitattributes rules are not exactly
> compatible, you can't just blindly copy them over. Every time you add
> one more .gitignore rule, there's a good chance you need to add a
> similar rule for trashable attribute.

I am not sure why you would even need to _duplicate_.

Are you saying for each and every rule that specify "ignored and
expendable" in .gitignore there always will be "ignored but
precious" exception that match the pattern?  Given that we have been
OK for so long without even needing "precious", I find it somewhat
unrealistic to assume so.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-02-20 22:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-16 11:49 [PATCH 0/1] Introduce "precious" file attribute Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2019-02-16 11:49 ` [PATCH 1/1] Introduce "precious" file concept Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2019-02-16 19:36   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-02-17  9:31     ` Duy Nguyen
2019-02-18  9:53       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-02-18 10:14         ` Duy Nguyen
2019-02-19 18:08       ` Junio C Hamano
2019-02-20  1:35         ` Duy Nguyen
2019-02-20  8:31           ` Clemens Buchacher
2019-02-20 22:32           ` Junio C Hamano
2019-02-20  9:19         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-02-20  9:36           ` Steffen Jost
2019-02-20  9:41           ` Duy Nguyen
2019-02-20 10:46             ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-02-20 11:11             ` Clemens Buchacher
2019-02-22  9:46               ` Duy Nguyen
2019-02-20 22:39             ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2019-02-22  9:35               ` Duy Nguyen
2019-02-22 18:07                 ` Junio C Hamano

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