On Sunday 20 August 2006 14:48, you wrote: > Not necessarily. Sometimes you have files in your working directory, which > are not in your repository, you know? Yet, I think it is quite inconvenient the way it is now. The same happens if you track a generated file by accident, and remove it later from tracking. The real problem is that there are two reasons to put a file into .gitignore: You do not want to have it tracked and polluting git-status because (1) it is temporary and generated (2) it is private and not supposed to be in the repository To distinguish these cases, we could introduce a per-repository configuration file .git/nevertouch . Comments? Josef - 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