Re: [PATCH] optionally disable overwriting of ignored files

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Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@xxxxxx> writes:

> I understand your point. But this is actually a great example. I
> have a bunch of such tests, which are not in shape for upstream,
> but I want to keep them around anyways (and run them). Do you
> really think that an untracked test which was added to
> .git/info/exclude should be considered trashable? If it were a
> generated file, it would have been added to .gitignore.

I agree that in such a workflow to keep untracked tests around, they
should not be considered trashable. But more importantly, as I have
already said, adding your untracked tests to exclude is a wrong thing to
do.

Traditionally (think "git status" output without "-s") the way to remind
oneself that some day these paths need to be added when they are ready has
been to keep them untracked but _not_ ignored, so that they will be listed
in the output.

Quite contrary to what you earlier said in another message, adding
such a path that is not trashable does defeat the point of the "ignore"
mechanism.
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