Martin Waitz <tali@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > This safety measure is quite useful normally, but for files that are > explicitly marked as to-be-ignored it should not be neccessary. > > But all the code that handles .gitignore is only used by ls-files now. > Does it make sense to add exclude handling to unpack-trees.c, too? In principle, I am not opposed to the idea of making read-tree take the ignore information into consideration. But I would suggest you to be _extremely_ careful if you want to try this. I do not have an example offhand, but I would not be surprised at all if there is a valid use case where it is useful to have a pattern that matches a tracked file in .gitignore file. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html